Arauris
Latin
Etymology
Old hydronym usually separated as two elements (possibly through Celtic/Gaulish):[1][2]
- Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, stir, move”)
- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”).[3][4]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈrau̯.ris/, [äˈräu̯rɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈrau̯.ris/, [äˈräːu̯ris]
View of the river
Proper noun
Arauris f sg (genitive Arauris); third declension
- A river in Gallia Narbonensis which flows into the Mediterranean Sea near Agatha, now the river Hérault
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Arauris |
| Genitive | Arauris |
| Dative | Araurī |
| Accusative | Araurem Araurim |
| Ablative | Araure Araurī |
| Vocative | Arauris |
References
- Arauris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Arauris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Hubert, Henri (17 June 2013). The Rise of the Celts. Routledge.
- Falileev, A. I., Gohil, A. E., Ward, N. (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. United Kingdom: CMCS.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
- Delamarre, p. 55
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