Ilergetes

Latin

Etymology

Latinized Iberian name (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). Probably influenced by Ancient Greek Ἰλουργήτες (Ilourgḗtes), Ἰλεργέται (Ilergétai), and related to Iberian Iltirta and Latin Ilerda. Possibly related to the Basque ilargi and hilargi.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.lerˈɡeː.teːs/, [ɪɫ̪ɛrˈɡeːt̪eːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.lerˈd͡ʒe.tes/, [ilerˈd͡ʒɛːt̪es]

Proper noun

Ilergētēs m pl (genitive Ilergētum); third declension

A tribe of Hispania Tarraconensis which dwelt north of the course of the Iberus

Usage notes

The form Ilergetae, although it is cited in Gaffiot's dictionary,^[1] is spurious in Latin. Presumably it was included based on a discredited inscription from Alcarràs.^[2] Ilergetae entered modern usage in dictionaries, as an approximation of the Greek.

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Ilergētēs
genitive	Ilergētum
dative	Ilergētibus
accusative	Ilergētēs
ablative	Ilergētibus
vocative	Ilergētēs

References

“Ilergetes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ilergetes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Transactions of the Celtic Society of Montreal: Comprising Some of the Papers Read Before the Society During Sessions 1884-85 to 1886-87, p. 3

^ Ilergetes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
^ Hübner, Emil. Inscriptiones Hispaniae latinae, volume 2, 1869. "Inscriptiones Falsae vel Alienae", p. 32*, no. 313*

[1] Ilergetes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

[2] Hübner, Emil. Inscriptiones Hispaniae latinae, volume 2, 1869. "Inscriptiones Falsae vel Alienae", p. 32*, no. 313*

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