tasconium

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly from Paleo-Hispanic. Compare Spanish tosca (“tuff”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tasˈkɔ.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tasˈkɔː.ni.um] === Noun === tasconium n (genitive tasconiī or tasconī); second declension (geology) A white kind of earth resembling clay ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “tasconium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tasconium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press