Serante
See also: serante
Latin
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“protect”) or *serh₃- (“to go on (hostilely)”) + the participial suffix *-nt-.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈran.te/, [sɛˈran.tɛ]
Proper noun
Serante
- A castellum of the tribe of the Seurri of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis
Usage notes
- Only attested in the ablative in a single inscription.
Descendants
- Galician: Serantes
References
- E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Castellum Serantis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240900> [accessed: 03 April 2018]
- Hispania Epigraphica n. 20028
- Luján, R. L. (2008). "Galician place-names attested epigraphically", in J. L. Garcia Alonso, Celtic and Other Languages In Ancient Europe. Salamanca: Universidad, →ISBN, pages 65-82.
- Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.