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Latin
Etymology
Probably of Gaulish/Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *wes, *ves (“mountain”) (compare the first element of Vesuvius), from Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wer- (“highland, high”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Vesontiō f sg (genitive Vesontiōnis); third declension
- Besançon (a city in modern France)
Declension
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Vesontio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Vesontio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Everett-Heath, John (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names