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Latin
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Celtic *nemetom (“sanctuary”) + *brigā (“fort”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nemetobriga f sg (genitive Nemetobrigae); first declension
- A town of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis, the main one of the tribe of the Tibures
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- E.W. Haley, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nemetobriga: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236565>
- Hispania Epigraphica n. 16608
- "Nemetobriga" in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.