Brigantium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /briˈɡan.ti.um/, [brɪˈɡän̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /briˈɡan.t͡si.um/, [briˈɡänt̪͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

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

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

• French: Briançon
• German: Bregenz
  • → English: Bregenz
  • → French: Brégence

References

• “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