vergobretus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈɡo.bre.tus/, [u̯ɛrˈɡɔbrɛt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈɡo.bre.tus/, [verˈɡɔːbret̪us]

Etymology

From Gaulish uercobretos

Noun

vergobretus m (genitive vergobretī); second declension

1. Chief magistrate of the Aedui, vergobret
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.16:

     qui summo magistratui praeerat, quem vergobretum appellant Haedui

     He was in charge of the highest magistracy, which the Aedui called the Vergobretus.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vergobretus	vergobretī
genitive	vergobretī	vergobretōrum
dative	vergobretō	vergobretīs
accusative	vergobretum	vergobretōs
ablative	vergobretō	vergobretīs
vocative	vergobrete	vergobretī

Descendants

• French: vergobret, vergobert, vergobreth, vergobreith, vierg
• English: vergobret
• Latin: virgobretus

References

• “vergobretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vergobretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers