See also: serante

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (protect) or *serh₃- (to go on (hostilely)) + the participial suffix *-nt-.[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Serante

  1. A castellum of the tribe of the Seurri of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis

Usage notes edit

  • Only attested in the ablative in a single inscription.

Descendants edit

  • Galician: Serantes

References edit

  • E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Castellum Serantis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240900> [accessed: 03 April 2018]
  • Hispania Epigraphica n. 20028
  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.