Brigantium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts, from the root *bʰerǵʰ-.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Brigantium n sg (genitive Brigantiī or Brigantī); second declension

  1. Bregenz (a city in modern Austria)
  2. Briançon (a town in modern France)
  3. ancient name of A Coruña (a city in modern Spain)

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

Case 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

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  • French: Briançon
  • German: Bregenz

References

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  • 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, →DOI, retrieved 7 March 2018, pages 119-164