Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium
I wonder if someone has studied or came up with etymology of it? It looks Greek and Egyptian at the same time but i couldn't find it in any etymological dictionary. My only guess is πᾰρᾰ́ + Ἴτανον "contrary to Itanos" but i don't know if this construction was possible in Ancient Greek. --ⲫⲁϯⲟⲩⲉⲣϣⲓ (talk) 18:26, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
Aristotle says in the Politics that "there was a certain Italus, king of Oenotria, from whom the Oenotrians were called Italians, and who gave the name of Italy to the promontory of Europe lying within the Scylletic and Lametic Gulfs". Is this alternate origin of the word "Italy" worth mentioning the etymology, or has it been discredited? Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:47, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
The dictionaries i was able to check all have rupta via, even lexico.com, whose content is supposed to be produced by Oxford Dictionaries, but https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/08/route.html says that the OED has via rupta. --Espoo (talk) 19:27, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
RFV of the etymology. I can't find evidence of "Saxon" (Anglo-Saxon, i.e. Old English?) spicurran except in 18th-century dictionaries as the etymology of this very word. —Mahāgaja · talk 20:25, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
