Nemausus

From Latin Nemausus.

Nemausus

1. (Celtic mythology) The patron god of Nîmes during Roman times.

• Nemausum

From Gaulish *nemo, named after a local deity and its sanctuary. The name could ultimately be from Proto-Celtic *nemos (“heaven, sky”) or from a hydronym related to the river Neman.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛˈmau̯.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [neˈmaːu̯.sus]

Nemausus f sg (genitive Nemausī); second declension

1. a city in Gallia Narbonensis, now Nîmes

Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Nemausēnsis, Nemausēnsēs, Nemausiēnsis

• Middle French: Nismes
  • French: Nîmes
    • English: Nîmes, denim

• “Nĕmausum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nemausus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Green, Miranda (1997) Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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