Certain stone
tablets have inscribed on them the name of the municipium Tarvisium; but what is the
etymology of the word? Origins of the name
Certain stone
tablets have inscribed on them the name of the municipium Tarvisium; but what is the
etymology of the word?
We prefer, amongst the many, two possible meanings: the first comes from the Celtic word Tarvos (bull) plus the Latin desinence -isium, thus Tarvisium; the other from the name of the Illyrian Protovenetian and Aeneolithic tribe that first inhabited the area.
Therefore the name would not come from the "tres vici" (three villages) upon which Treviso is supposed to have been built or from the meaning of the word Trevisi (three faces) because this word appeared only during the Middle Ages.
For this reason the three-faced figure placed in front of the Town Hall in
1958 seems to be only for show.
