vergobretus

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Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish uercobretos

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈɡo.bre.tus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈɡo.bre.tus/,

Noun

vergobretus m (genitive vergobretī); second declension

Chief magistrate of the Aedui, vergobret
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.16:
  qui summo magistratui praeerat, quem vergobretum appellant Haedui
  He was in charge of the highest magistracy, which the Aedui called the Vergobretus.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vergobretus	vergobretī
genitive	vergobretī	vergobretōrum
dative	vergobretō	vergobretīs
accusative	vergobretum	vergobretōs
ablative	vergobretō	vergobretīs
vocative	vergobrete	vergobretī

Descendants

English: vergobret
French: vergobret, vergobert, vergobreth, vergobreith, vierg
German: Vergobret
Latin: virgobretus
Spanish: vergobret

References

“vergobretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“vergobretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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