Vedra

See also: vedra, vedrà, and vědra

English

Proper noun

Vedra

  1. A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *wẹ:drā- (a bend), compare Welsh gwair ((in compounds) bend, curve, ring)

Proper noun

Vedra f sg (genitive Vedrae); first declension

  1. a river in Britannia, maybe the Wear

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Vedra
genitive Vedrae
dative Vedrae
accusative Vedram
ablative Vedrā
vocative Vedra

References

  • Vedra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Alan James - Brittonic Language in the Old North