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briginos

Gaulish edit

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Etymology edit

Usually explained as from Proto-Celtic *brīgos (“strength; sap; essence”) (Old Irish bríg).

Noun edit

briginos m

  1. wormwood
    • c. 400, Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (in Latin), 26:41:
      Artimisia herba est, quam Gallice bricumum appellant. Hanc ubi nascatur require et inventam mane ante solis ortum sinistra manu extrahes et ex ea nudos renes praecinges; quo facto singulari et praesentaneo remedio uteris.
      Wormwood is a herb which is called bricumum/bricumus in Gaulish. Seek it out as soon as born and found in the morning before sun has arisen pull it out with the left hand and girth the naked haunches with it; doing this you nait a leechdom quick of feck and one in its kind.
    • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον :
      βρικίνη (var. βρικίννη, βρικίνης, βρικίννης) — εἶδος βοτάνης
      Bricinē — a kind of herb
    • c. 700–800, Codex Parisinus Lat. 11218 Saeculi IX published in the Corpus glossariorum latinorum III page 631 line 22
      artemisia gallice briginus appellant
      Wormwood they call briginus in Gaulish

Declension edit

    declension of briginos (Transalpine)
Case Singular Plural
Nominative briginos briginoi
Vocative brigine briginoi
Accusative briginon briginōs1, briginūs2
Genitive brigini briginon
Dative briginū briginobo
Instrumental briginū briginuis1, briginūs2
Locative briginei1, briginē2 briginois
1 early forms, 2 late forms

Related terms edit

  • *brīgantios
    • Lombard: briánz (“grande wormwood”) (Valtellina)

Further reading edit

  • 1998, Peter Anreiter and Hermann M. Ölberg (eds.), Wort – Text – Sprache und Kultur: Festschrift für Hans Schmeja zum 65. Geburtstag, p. 12f.:
    • das bei Marcellus bezeugte <bricumum> ist wohl als Verschreibung für <bricinum> = /briginum/ anzusehen.
    • Gall. [= Gallisch] *brīginos/*brīginom war mithin schlicht die 'kräftige (i. S. v. [= im Sinne von] sehr wirksame) Pflanze'.
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