Editing Ticino (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Ticino'' was chosen for the newly established canton in 1803, after the river [[Ticino (river)|Ticino]] which flows through it from the [[Nufenen Pass|Novena Pass]] to [[Lake Maggiore]].<ref name=aet>{{cite web|title=Lo scorrere del fiume, l'opera dell'uomo|url=http://www.aet.ch/comunicati_det.html?idnews=7195|publisher=Azienda elettrica ticinese|access-date=28 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028232235/http://www.aet.ch/comunicati_det.html?idnews=7195|archive-date=28 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Known as ''Ticinus'' in Roman times, the river appears on the {{Lang|la|[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]}} as ''Ticenum''. [[Johann Kaspar Zeuss]] attributed Celtic origins to the name, tracing it to the Celtic ''tek'', itself from an Indo-European root ''tak'', meaning "melting, flowing".<ref name=rria>{{cite web|author1=Roberto Rampoldi|title=Intorno all'origine e al significato del nome Ticino|url=https://archive.org/stream/periodicovolume01comogoog#page/n83/mode/1up/|publisher=Internet Archive|access-date=28 October 2014|date=1901}}</ref>

The official name of the canton is ''Republic and Canton of Ticino'' ({{langx|it|Repubblica e Cantone Ticino}}), and the two-letter code is TI. It is one of the four cantons of Switzerland officially referred to as "republics", along with [[Canton of Geneva|Geneva]], [[Canton of Neuchâtel|Neuchâtel]] and [[Canton of Jura|Jura]].