Samarobriva

From Gaulish. Compare Samara, the name of the river on which the town is situated. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sa.ma.rɔˈbriː.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sa.ma.roˈbriː.va]

Samarobrīva f sg (genitive Samarobrīvae); first declension

1. the chief town of the Ambiani, now Amiens

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Samarobriva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Samarobriva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Samarobriva”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly