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Latin
Etymology
From the river Iseur, which is cognate with the Celtic name for the river Isara.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Isurium n sg (genitive Isuriī or Isurī); second declension
- a town of the Brigantes in Britannia, which was situated between Cataractonium and Eboracum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Isurium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Smith, A.H. (1962). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 7. Cambridge University Press.