Resumen de La question du multilinguisme dans l’Italie médiorépublicaine: terminologie et formulaires des Tables Eugubines
This article examines two substantives which are attested as institutional terms both in Umbrian in the Iguvine Tablets, and in Latin at Rome : populus and puplum/poplo “people in arms”, on the one hand, tribus and trifu/trifo “tribe (uel sim.)”, on the other. The evolution of these two terms and the history of the institutions they referred to in both cities are analysed by highlighting the specificity of each one of them within a linguistic koinè that preceded the Roman conquest; in this koinè the Roman models were not the only source of terminological and institutional innovation.
