Noricum

English

Proper noun

Noricum

  1. (historical) A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νώρικον (Nṓrikon), from an unknown source predating the Celts' arrival. Said to be a Phrygian or Thracian word, but of unclear meaning.

Robert Ellis (1855) supports a relation to Phrygian νώρικον (nṓrikon, “(wine)skin”), offering the hypothesis that the place derived from the hollowness of the river-valley. For semantic parallel, he cites Welsh cwm (“valley”), which derives from Proto-Indo-European *kumbʰo-, *kumbʰéh₂- (“vessel”).[1]

The province within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nōricum n sg (genitive Nōricī); second declension

  1. A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria.

Declension

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

Case Singular
Nominative Nōricum
Genitive Nōricī
Dative Nōricō
Accusative Nōricum
Ablative Nōricō
Vocative Nōricum
Locative Nōricī

References
  1. Ellis, Robert (1855) “On the probable Connexion of the Rhaetians and Etruscans with the Thracian stock of nations”, in The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume II, published 2012, →DOI, pages 3-4

Further reading
  • “Noricum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Noricum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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