Via Nomentana Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
Blue–green distinction in language that meant "marigold" a small and in fact yellow flower. The other word, "blu", refers to a darker shade of blue, and like many similar words across many European languages, derives ultimately from Germanic (see also: Italian "blu"). There is a separate word for green, "gjelbër", which derives from the Latin "galbinus", which originally meant "yellow"; the original Latin word for green on the other hand, "viridis", is the source of the Albanian word for "yellow", "verdhë". There are separate words for green ("zaļš") and blue ("zils") in Latvian. Both "zils" and "zaļš" stem from the same Proto-Indo-European word for