Aviliobris
Latin
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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]