Talabriga

See also: Talábriga

Latin

Etymology

From Hispano-Celtic; a probable composite of Proto-Celtic *talu (“forehead; top”) + *brigā (“hill-fort”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /taˈla.bri.ɡa/, [t̪äˈɫ̪äbrɪɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈla.bri.ɡa/, [t̪äˈläːbriɡä]

Proper noun

Talabriga f sg (genitive Talabrigae); first declension

1. A town in Lusitania situated on the road from Aeminium to Langobriga
2. a castellum (hill-fort) of the Limici, in Gallaecia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Talabriga
Genitive	Talabrigae
Dative	Talabrigae
Accusative	Talabrigam
Ablative	Talabrigā
Vocative	Talabriga
Locative	Talabrigae

Descendants

• → Portuguese: Talábriga (learned)

References

• Talabrica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Talabriga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Castellum Talabriga: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240901> [accessed: 21 September 2018]
• Luján Martínez, Eugenio (2014 May 19) 'Galician place-names attested epigraphically', in Celtic and Other Languages in Ancient Europe‎^[1], Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, retrieved 21 September 2018, page 71