 This latter etymology is supported by archaeological discoveries and by the fact that, until the mid-19th century, the municipality bore the name "Cernusco Asinario" after "Caius Asinius", a Roman functionary who lived in the late 1st Century BC and whose tomb was discovered in 1849 near Cascina Lupa.Today the burial urn of Caius Asinius features in the municipal coat of arms and a street in the central part of the city is named after him.Cernusco sul Naviglio is first mentioned in as a Roman "vicus" near the military road from Mediolanum (Milan) to Aquileia.