Bituriges

Bituriges m or f

1. plural of Biturige

Gaulish tribal name, possibly meaning "kings of the world". Compare Proto-Celtic *bitus (“world, tribe”) +‎ *rīxs (“king”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /biˈtu.ri.ɡeːs/, [bɪˈt̪ʊrɪɡeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈtu.ri.d͡ʒes/, [biˈt̪uːrid͡ʒes]

Biturigēs m pl (genitive Biturigum); third declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose chief cities were Avaricum and Burdigala

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• French: Berry
• French: Bourges

• “Bituriges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bituriges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Bituriges”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Stanley Alexander Handford, Jane F. Gardner (1983), The Conquest of Gaul By Julius Caesar
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN