Brigantium
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts, from the root *bʰerǵʰ-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [brɪˈɡan.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [briˈɡan.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Proper noun
Brigantium n sg (genitive Brigantiī or Brigantī); second declension
- Bregenz (a city in modern Austria)
- Briançon (a town in modern France)
- ancient name of A Coruña (a city in modern Spain)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Brigantium |
| genitive | Brigantiī Brigantī1 |
| dative | Brigantiō |
| accusative | Brigantium |
| ablative | Brigantiō |
| vocative | Brigantium |
| locative | Brigantiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “Brigantium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Brigantium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- E.W. Haley, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, '(Flavium) Brigantium/Portus Magnus?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236465> [accessed: 03 April 2018]
- Navaza, Gonzalo (2016) “A orixe literaria do nome da Coruña”, in Revista Galega de Filoloxía, volume 17, , retrieved 7 March 2018, pages 119-164