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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *segos (“force”) + *brigā (“hill-fort”), with the meaning "mighty hill-fort" or "hill-fort of victory".[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Segobriga f sg (genitive Segobrigae); first declension
- the capital city of the Celtiberians in Hispania Tarraconensis
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Segobriga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Segobriga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Segobriga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Segobriga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “Segobriga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- ^ Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, →ISBN, pages 790–