Bibracte

Bibracte ?

1. a Gaulish oppidum near Autun in Burgundy

Unknown; perhaps from a Celtic word for “beaver”, or from the term biffractus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɪˈbrak.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [biˈbrak.t̪e]

Bibracte n sg (genitive Bibractis); third declension

1. Bibracte (ancient town in Gaul near modern Autun, France)

Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.

• “Bibracte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bibracte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.