Vascones

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Latin

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Vasconia, the area of the Vascones in ancient Roman Iberia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Οὐασκώνων (Ouaskṓnōn) attested in Strabo's 1st-century Geographica, Book III,[1] of uncertain origin.

Variously derived from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) (literally “he-goat people”) or a variant of Ausci. According to Antonio Tovar, the name could have been from an exonym of entirely Proto-Indo-European origin given to the Basques by earlier Indo-Europeans inhabiting Basque country, based on the name ba(r)scunes found inscribed on coins matching the territory and period. The name would have been comprised of:

Thus, the name would have meant something like "the high (proud) people."[1] Probably unrelated to the Basque endonym Euskara, despite the similarity.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Vasconēs m pl (genitive Vasconum); third declension

  1. (historical) Vascones (a pre-Roman tribe between the Ebro and the Pyrenees in northeastern Hispania Tarraconensis generally taken to be the early Basques)
  2. (New Latin) Basques

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative Vasconēs
genitive Vasconum
dative Vasconibus
accusative Vasconēs
ablative Vasconibus
vocative Vasconēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Galician: Bascuas (place name)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Larry Trask, The History of Basque Routledge: 1997 →ISBN
  • “Vascones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Vascones in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Vascones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Vascones”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Vascones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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