Bibracte

French

Proper noun

Bibracte ?

1. a Gaulish oppidum near Autun in Burgundy

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; perhaps from a Celtic word for “beaver”, or from the term biffractus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /biˈbrak.te/, [bɪˈbräkt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈbrak.te/, [biˈbräkt̪e]

Proper noun

Bibracte n sg (genitive Bibractis); third declension

1. Bibracte (ancient town in Gaul near modern Autun, France)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bibracte
genitive	Bibractis
dative	Bibractī
accusative	Bibracte
ablative	Bibracte
vocative	Bibracte
locative	Bibractī Bibracte

References

• “Bibracte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bibracte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.