Berisamum

Latin

Etymology

From Gallaecian (Hispano-Celtic), perhaps from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise”) and the Celtic superlative suffix Proto-Celtic *-isamo-.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /beˈri.sa.mum/, [bɛˈrɪ.sa.mũ]

Proper noun

Berisamum n (genitive Berisamī); second declension

a castellum of the Cileni, in Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis. Now possibly Beresmo, Galicia.

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Berisamum
Genitive	Berisamī
Dative	Berisamō
Accusative	Berisamum
Ablative	Berisamō
Vocative	Berisamum

References

E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Castellum Berisamum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240891> [accessed: 03 April 2018]
Hesperia. Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispánicas: Onom. 1581
Hispania Epigraphica n. 18642
Beresmo in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.

Luján, R. L. "Pueblos celtas y no celtas de la Galicia antigua", pages 236-237.
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.
Prósper, B. M. (2004) "Varia paleohispanica occidentalia", in Palaeohispanica, 4, page 189.

[1] Luján, R. L. "Pueblos celtas y no celtas de la Galicia antigua", pages 236-237.

[2] 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.

[3] Prósper, B. M. (2004) "Varia paleohispanica occidentalia", in Palaeohispanica, 4, page 189.