Aviliobris

Latin

Aerial view of the cidade de Borneiro, a nearby Iron Age hill fort

Etymology

From Gallaecian, from Proto-Celtic *awelyo- (“windy”) + Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill; hill-fort”).

Proper noun

Aviliobris f (genitive Aviliobris); third declension

A castellum or fortified town of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis

References

Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
E.W. Haley, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Castellum Aviliobris: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236412> [accessed: 31 March 2018]

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