Limici

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Latin

The Limici lived along the Limia river, whose high course was in the past a shallow lake

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Gallaecian Limia, the Limia river, and the relational suffix *-ko-, meaning "the people of the Limia". The name Limia is from Proto-Celtic *līmo- ("flood; marsh", compare Welsh llif, "flow; stream; flood"), from Proto-Indo-European *léymō (“lake”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Līmicī m pl (genitive Līmicōrum); second declension

  1. A tribe of Gallaecia

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative Līmicī
genitive Līmicōrum
dative Līmicīs
accusative Līmicōs
ablative Līmicīs
vocative Līmicī

References

  • Limici in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
  • Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
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