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Talabriga

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See also: Talábriga

Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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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

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Talabriga
genitive Talabrigae
dative Talabrigae
accusative Talabrigam
ablative Talabrigā
vocative Talabriga
locative Talabrigae

Descendants

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  • Portuguese: Talábriga (learned)

References

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  • 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