Ticinus

The name could have meant "the runner," from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ-ino-s, from *tekʷ- (“to run, flow”).^[1]

Tīcīnus m sg (genitive Tīcīnī); second declension

 

1. The Ticino river.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• → Ancient Greek: Τίκινος (Tíkinos)
• Italian: Ticino

• “Ticinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ticinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ticinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly