brigantes

Found in Gallo-Latin, probably related to Proto-Celtic *wrigants f (“vermin”). Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”), but Matasović dismisses the similarity as "probably accidental" and instead suggests a non-Indo-European substrate. According to MacBain, from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), similar to English wry.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [brɪˈɡan.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [briˈɡan̪.t̪es]

brigantēs m pl (genitive brigantum); third declension

1. A species of small worm in the eyelashes

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• “brigantes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• brigantes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1152”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1152
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wriggant”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 430-31
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “frìde”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

brigantes

1. plural of brigante