Vesontio

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
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eˈson.ti.oː/, [u̯ɛˈs̠ɔn̪t̪ioː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈson.t͡si.o/, [veˈs̬ɔnt̪͡s̪io]

Proper noun

Vesontiō f sg (genitive Vesontiōnis); third declension

  1. Besançon (a city in modern France)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Vesontiō
Genitive Vesontiōnis
Dative Vesontiōnī
Accusative Vesontiōnem
Ablative Vesontiōne
Vocative Vesontiō
Locative Vesontiōnī
Vesontiōne

Descendants
  • French: Besançon

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
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