Vesontio

Latin

Etymology

Probably of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *wes, *ves (“mountain”) (compare the first element of Vesuvius), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wer- (“highland, high”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eˈson.ti.oː/, [u̯ɛˈs̠ɔn̪t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈson.t͡si.o/, [veˈs̬ɔnt̪͡s̪io]

Proper noun

Vesontiō f sg (genitive Vesontiōnis); third declension

1. Besançon (a city in modern France)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Vesontiō
Genitive	Vesontiōnis
Dative	Vesontiōnī
Accusative	Vesontiōnem
Ablative	Vesontiōne
Vocative	Vesontiō
Locative	Vesontiōnī Vesontiōne

Descendants

• French: Besançon

References

• “Vesontio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Vesontio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Everett-Heath, John (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names