Tubusuptu

French

Alternative forms

• Tubusuctu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tubusuptu.

Proper noun

Tubusuptu f

1. Tubusuctu (a town in Mauretania Caesariensis, Roman Empire)

Latin

Alternative forms

• Tubusuptos, Tubusuctu, Thubusubtu, Tubusubros

Etymology

Also in Ptolemy as Ancient Greek Τουβούσουπτος (Touboúsouptos), Τουβούσουππος (Touboúsouppos), Τουβούσιππος (Touboúsippos).

Possibly the same city as Thubuscum. The root *thubu(r)- is shared with other Roman African toponyms, such as Thuburbo, Thubursicu, Thuburnica.

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Proper noun

Tubusuptu gender unattested

1. A town in Mauretania Caesariensis, Roman Empire
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.21:

     intus colonia Augusta quae item Succhabar, item Tubusuptu, civitates Timici, Tigavae, flumina Sardaval, Aves, Nabar, gens Macurebi, flumen Usar, gens Nababes.

     In the interior are the colony of Augusta, also called Succhabar, Tubusuptu, the cities of Timici and Tigavae, the rivers Sardaval, Aves, and Nabar, the Macurebi tribe, the river Usar, and the Nababes tribe.

   • c. 390 CE, Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.5.11:

     his ita cum laetitia possessorum dispositis, ad Tubusuptum progressus, oppidum Ferrato contiguum monti

     After these arrangements had thus been made to the joy of the land-owners, he marched to Tubusuptum, a town near Mount Ferratus

   • c. 700 C.E., Ravenna Cosmography 3.8:

     Tubusuptos (var. Tubusuptas, Tubusubros)

     Tubusuptos

Derived terms

• Tubusubditanus, Tubusucticanus, Thubugusubdinatus

Further reading

• Tubusuptu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Wilmanns, G., Mommsen, Th., editors (1881), Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, volume 7, page 754