Picenum

From Latin Pīcenum.

Picenum (uncountable)

1. a region of ancient Italy identified by the Romans.

From pīcus (“woodpecker”), the name of the local tribe's sacred animal.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [piːˈkeː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [piˈt͡ʃɛː.num]

Pīcēnum n sg (genitive Pīcēnī); second declension

1. an ancient region of Italy, extending from the mouth of the river Aesis to that of the Matrinus, corresponding more or less to the region of Marche

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

• Pīcēnus
• Pīcens
• Pīcēntes

• “Picenum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Picenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.