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French
Proper noun
Bibracte ?
- a Gaulish oppidum near Autun in Burgundy
Latin
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps from a Celtic word for “beaver”, or from the term biffractus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bibracte n sg (genitive Bibractis); third declension
- Bibracte (ancient town in Gaul near modern Autun, France)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.
References
- “Bibracte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bibracte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.