Virodunum

From Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wiros (“man”) + *dūnom (“fortress”), thus literally, “manly/powerful fortress”.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɪ.rɔˈduː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.roˈd̪uː.num]

Virodūnum n sg (genitive Virodūnī); second declension

1. a town in Gallia Belgica, now Verdun

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

• Virodunum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Virodunum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly