Samnite is an adjective meaning "having to do with ancient
Samnium
Samnium ( it, Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Their own endonyms were ''Safinim'' for the country (attested in one inscription and one coin legend) and ''Safineis'' for the The lan ...
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Samnite may also refer to:
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Samnites
The Samnites () were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy.
An Oscan-speaking people, who may have originated as an offshoot of the Sabines, they ...
, the people of ancient Samnium
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Samnite (gladiator type), a gladiator who fought with the equipment and in the manner of a Samnite soldier
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Samnite Wars
The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars (343–341 BC, 326–304 BC, and 298–290 BC) were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome and north of the Lucanian tribe.
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, wars between the Roman Republic and the Samnites
See also
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Samnis (disambiguation) Samnis or Samnes may refer to:
* An inhabitant of Samnium, a region of southern Italy conquered by Rome in the 4th century BC
* Samnite (gladiator type)
A Samnite (Latin ''Samnis'', plural ''Samnites'') was a Roman gladiator who fought with equi ...
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