Segobriga

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *segos (force) + *brigā (hill-fort), with the meaning "mighty hill-fort" or "hill-fort of victory".[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Segobriga f sg (genitive Segobrigae); first declension

  1. the capital city of the Celtiberians in Hispania Tarraconensis

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Segobriga
Genitive Segobrigae
Dative Segobrigae
Accusative Segobrigam
Ablative Segobrigā
Vocative Segobriga
Locative Segobrigae

Derived terms

  • Segobrigēnsēs

References

  • Segobriga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Segobriga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Segobriga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Segobriga”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Segobriga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
  1. Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, →ISBN, pages 790–
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