Italy
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From Middle English Italy, Italie, from Old English Italia(“Italy”), from Latin Italia(“Italy”), via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ(Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞(víteliú). Usually explained as a cognate of vitulus(“calf”), thus meaning "land of young bulls" in Oscan. In that case, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wet-(“year”). According to some ancient Greek authors, named after a king Italus or Italos, whose kingdom was on the peninsula.
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Italy
from Latin Italia, from Greek Italia; of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Oscan Viteliu "Italy," but meaning originally only the southwestern point of the peninsula. Traditionally said to be from Vitali, name of a tribe that settled in Calabria, whose name is perhaps somehow connected with Latin vitulus "calf." Or perhaps the country name is directly from vitulus as "land of cattle," or it might be from an Illyrian word, or an ancient or legendary ruler Italus. The modern nation dates from events of 1859-60 and was completed by the addition of Venetia in 1866 and Rome in 1870.
