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Latin
Etymology
Of pre-Latin, likely Celtic origin, from *Tūrīkon, from the personal name Tūros + the relational suffix *-īko-.[1] More at Turicum.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Turīcum n sg (genitive Turīcī); second declension
- A town in Gallia Belgica, now Zürich
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Descendants
- → Proto-West Germanic: *Turīk
References
- Turicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Turicum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- ^ Andres Kristol, Zürich = Tūrḗgum ou Tū́rĕgum ?, in: Nouvelle revue d’onomastique 47–48 (2007), p. 223