Eboracum

Borrowed from pre-Brythonic and Proto-Celtic *Eborākom, from *eburos (“yew”) +‎ *-ākom (relative adjective suffix). See the entry York for more.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.bɔˈraː.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.boˈraː.kum]

Eborācum n sg (genitive Eborācī); second declension

1. Eboracum, a fort and city in Roman Britain, which evolved into York.
2. York

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

• eborācēnsis
• noveborācēnsis
• Novum Eborācum

• → Old English: Eoforwīċ, Eoferwīċ, Ēorwīċ, Euerwīċ
  • Middle English: Everwik, Eborwike, Eoverwic, Everwic, Everwich, Everwike, Everwyk
    • → Old French: Everwich
    • → Old Italian: Verrvicche
  • → Old Norse: Jórvík
    • Icelandic: Jórvík
    • → Faroese: Jórvík (learned)
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: Jorvik (learned)
    • → Swedish: Jorvik (learned)
    • → Danish: Jorvig (learned)
    • → Middle English: York, Yorke, Ȝork, Ȝorke, Ȝorc, Ȝeorc
      • English: York

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