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Un toponimo solo a prima vista trasparente: Altamura

Loporcaro, Michele; Santoro, Damiana (2024). Un toponimo solo a prima vista trasparente: Altamura. Rivista Italiana di onomastica, XXX(1):27-39.

Abstract

L’articolo propone che nel toponimo Altamura sia da vedere non già la continuazione trasparente di un sintagma basso-latino designante delle ‘mura alte’, bensì di uno longobardo contenente l’aggettivo ‘vecchio’. Lo si argomenta facendo perno sulla denominazione in antico del sito su cui sorse nel XIII secolo la cittadina, analizzando la struttura linguistica del toponimo alla luce delle conoscenze sul longobardo ed infine situando la discussione entro il più ampio quadro della presenza longobarda nella toponomastica pugliese.

The article proposes that the placename Altamura is to be understood not as the transparent outcome of a Late Latin phrase designating ‘high walls’ but rather of a Langobardic one containing the adjective ‘old’. This is argued based on the ancient naming of the site where town was to arise in the 13th century, on the analysis of the linguistic structure of the place-name in the light of knowledge about the Lombardic language, and finally situating the discussion within the broader framework of the Lombard presence in Apulian toponymy.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Romance Studies
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Language and Space
Dewey Decimal Classification:470 Latin & Italic languages
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism
440 French & related languages
460 Spanish & Portuguese languages
410 Linguistics
450 Italian, Romanian & related languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:toponimia, Altamura, Puglia, longobardo, latino
Language:Italian
Date:2024
Deposited On:21 Mar 2024 15:46
Last Modified:31 Oct 2024 07:27
Publisher:Società Editrice Romana
ISSN:1124-8890
OA Status:Closed

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