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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Gaulish *Cebenna, from Proto-Celtic *kebno- (“back”), from Pre-Celtic *kebn-, which could be related to *kambos (“crooked, bent”). Compare Middle Welsh keuen (“back”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cebenna f sg (genitive Cebennae); first declension
- A range of mountains in France, now the Cévennes
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Cebenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cebenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Cebenna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ The Journal of Celtic Studies. (1958). United States: Temple University at the Waverly Press, p. 3