terramara

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[ter-uh-mahr-uh] / ˌtɛr əˈmɑr ə /

noun

terramare plural

1. a lake dwelling or settlement of lake dwellings, especially those whose remains survive in mounds in the Po valley of N Italy.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• terramare
  plural

Etymology

Origin of terramara

1865–70; < Italian dial., probably assimilation of Latin terra mala bad earth

Example Sentences

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terramare

The terramare village was regularly constructed in the form of a trapezoid, with a north and south orientation.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Italians, the, relations with palafitte and terramare peoples, 11; location and peoples, 13.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

From the crannog to the elaborate pile-dwelling, and from the rudest enclosure to the complex fortification of the terramare, there is an advance which is obviously a native product.

From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.

Elsewhere in the northern part of Italy in the Iron Age we have to do with a culture developing out of that of the terramare period.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Here, again, we have to do with a new type of civilization, which is not a development of the terramare culture.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly