Arauris
Latin
Etymology
Old hydronym usually separated as two elements (possibly through Celtic/Gaulish):[1][2]
- Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, stir, move”)
- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”).[3][4]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈrau̯.rɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈraːu̯.ris]
Proper noun
Arauris f sg (genitive Arauris); third declension
- a river in Gallia Narbonensis which flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Agatha, now the river Hérault
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Arauris |
| genitive | Arauris |
| dative | Araurī |
| accusative | Araurem Araurim |
| ablative | Araure Araurī |
| vocative | Arauris |
References
- Arauris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Arauris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ Hubert, Henri (17 June 2013). The Rise of the Celts. Routledge.
- ^ Falileev, A. I., Gohil, A. E., Ward, N. (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. United Kingdom: CMCS.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
- ^ Delamarre, p. 55