Vettones

Latin

Etymology

The name is from a a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably Hispano-Celtic or Celtiberian. Compare Lusitania, whose tribe's language could be related.

Location of the Vettones in Hispania

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vettōnēs m pl (genitive Vettōnum); third declension

  1. A possibly Celtic tribe which dwelt in the northwestern part of the Meseta Central, in the Roman province of Lusitania, east of modern day Portugal and north of Baetica, their largest city being Salmantica

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Vettōnēs
Genitive Vettōnum
Dative Vettōnibus
Accusative Vettōnēs
Ablative Vettōnibus
Vocative Vettōnēs

References

  • Vettones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Vettones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Vettones”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Vettones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Andrey Tikhomirov, Galina Tikhomirova (2018): Early Indo-Europeans. The formation of a linguistic community
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