Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Gallaecian (Hispano-Celtic), perhaps from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (to praise) and the Celtic superlative suffix Proto-Celtic *-isamo-.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Berisamum n sg (genitive Berisamī); second declension

  1. a castellum of the Cileni, in Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis. Now possibly Beresmo, Galicia.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Berisamum
Genitive Berisamī
Dative Berisamō
Accusative Berisamum
Ablative Berisamō
Vocative Berisamum

References edit

  • E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Castellum Berisamum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240891> [accessed: 03 April 2018]
  • Hesperia. Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispánicas: Onom. 1581
  • Hispania Epigraphica n. 18642
  • Beresmo in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. ^ Luján, R. L. "Pueblos celtas y no celtas de la Galicia antigua", pages 236-237.
  2. ^ Luján, R. L. (2008). "Galician place-names attested epigraphically", in J. L. Garcia Alonso, Celtic and Other Languages In Ancient Europe. Salamanca: Universidad, →ISBN, pages 65-82.
  3. ^ Prósper, B. M. (2004) "Varia paleohispanica occidentalia", in Palaeohispanica, 4, page 189.