virgobretus

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Etymology

From Latin vergobretus

Noun

virgobretus m (genitive virgobretī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of vergobretus (“Chief magistrate of the Aedui”)[1][2]
    • Isidore of Seville, Liber glossarum 1377:
      Virgobretus, nomen magistratus.
      Virgobretus, name of a magistrate
    • 1603, Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, Catalogus Gloriæ Mundi, D. BARTHOLOMÆI CASSANÆI, BVRGVNDI APVD AQVAS SEXTIAS IN SENATV DECURIÆ PRÆSIDIS AC VIRI CLARISSIME‎ (quotation in Latin; overall work in Latin), Saur, Johann,, page 568:
      Nam & in vrbe magiſtratus vnus, qui annuus (pro ut nunc retinens adhuc nomen antiquum) creabatur, vitæ, & necis in ſuos poteſtatem habens. Qui, vt vir a virtute, ſic & ipſe Virgobretus a virtute qua debet habere, nomen ſortitur: & iuxta alluſionem vocabuli in vulgari nostro dicitur Vierg.
      In the city, one magistrate who (who still retains the ancient name) was created annually; they held power over life and death. This magistrate, as a man is by virtue, is himself named Virgobretus by the virtue which he ought to have. And, according to the allusion of the word in our vulgar tongue it is called Vierg.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative virgobretus virgobretī
genitive virgobretī virgobretōrum
dative virgobretō virgobretīs
accusative virgobretum virgobretōs
ablative virgobretō virgobretīs
vocative virgobrete virgobretī

References

  1. ^
    1658, Jacques Cujas, Charles Annibal Fabrot, Jacobi Cuiacii ic. praestantissimi Opera omnia in decem tomos distributa : quibus continentur tam priora, sive quæ ipse superstes edi curauit; quam posteriora, sive quae post obitum eius edita sunt, vel nunc primum prodeunt‎ (quotation in Latin; overall work in Latin), Paris: Impenſis Societatis Typrographicæ Librorum Officij Eccleſiaſtici, iuſſu Regis conſtitutæ, page 923:
    Virgobretus, fammus Haedorum magiſtratus
    Vergobret, famous magistrate of the Aedui
  2. ^
    1735, Adam Littleton, Dr. Adam Littleton's Latin Dictionary, in Four Parts‎ (quotation in English; overall work in English), London, page 1473:
    Virgobretus, Gl. A Kind of Magiſtrate,
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