Arauris

Latin

Etymology

Old hydronym usually separated as two elements (possibly through Celtic/Gaulish):

• Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, stir, move”)
• Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈrau̯.ris/, [äˈräu̯rɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈrau̯.ris/, [äˈräːu̯ris]

View of the river

Proper noun

Arauris f sg (genitive Arauris); third declension

1. A river in Gallia Narbonensis which flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Agatha, now the river Hérault

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arauris
Genitive	Arauris
Dative	Araurī
Accusative	Araurem Araurim
Ablative	Araure Araurī
Vocative	Arauris

References

• Arauris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arauris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly