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'''Lazio''' ('''Latium''' in [[Latin language|Latin]]) is a ''[[Regions of Italy|regione]]'' of central [[Italy]], border ...the region. Modern linguists postulate origins in a [[Proto-Indo-European language]] (PIE) root ''*stela-'' (to spread, extend), expressing the idea of "flat

...i'' means "to rotate". The Latin word ''[[:wikt:rota|rota]]'' is from the Proto-Indo-European *''rotā-'', the extended o-grade form of the root *''ret-'' meaning "to ro

'''Aosta''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Aoste'') is the principal city and episcopal see of the [[Aosta

...], where she gave birth to [[Minos]]. For [[Homer]], '''Europe''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{polytonic|Εὐρώπη}} ''{{Unicode|Eurṓpē}}''; see also [[ ...r etymology]] is really based on a [[Semitic]] word such as the [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] ''erebu'' meaning "sunset" (see also ''[[Erebus]]''). From the [

...d for other things of the same category. The word derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''πρωτότυπον'' (''prototypon''), "primitive form", neutra