Vesontio

Probably of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *wes, *ves (“mountain”) (compare the first element of Vesuvius), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wer- (“highland, high”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛˈsɔn.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈs̬ɔn.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Vesontiō f sg (genitive Vesontiōnis); third declension

1. Besançon (a city in modern France)

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• French: Besançon

• “Vesontio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Vesontio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Everett-Heath, John (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names