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Latin
Etymology
The Roman conquest of the city combined the name of emperor Augustus with the city's original Celtic/Gaulish name, Proto-Celtic *nemetom (“sanctuary, holy place”), from *nemos (“heaven, sky”). Together, they mean "sanctuary of Augustus".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Augustonemetum n sg (genitive Augustonemetī); second declension
- A town of the Arverni in Aquitania, now Clermont-Ferrand
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
References
- Augustonemetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Augustonemetum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- The Celtic Origin of a Great Part of the Greek and Latin Languages,: And of Many Classical Proper Names, Proved by a Comparison of Greek and Latin with the Gaelic Language Or the Celtic of Scotland, p. 58