Arverni

• Averni

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Arvernī m pl.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːɹˈvɜːɹnaɪ/

Arverni pl (plural only)

2. (historical) An ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.

   Synonyms: Arverns, Arvernians

   • 2007, Graham Robb, “Chapter 1: The Undiscovered Continent”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, W.W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 21:

     The vast plateau of the Massif Central was still the fortress it had been when the Arverni tribes held out against the Romans. Its rivers were unnavigable and its links to the rest of France practically non-existent.

• arriven, Ranvier

Gaulish tribe whose name, *Are-lica, is said to mean "the foremost rock," from *are (“in front of”) << Proto-Celtic *ɸare (“in front of”) + *lica (“rock”) << Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā (“stone”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈwɛr.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈvɛr.ni]

Arvernī m pl (genitive Arvernōrum); second declension

1. Arverni

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• “Arverni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Arverni”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arverni”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Delamarre, Xavier (2003), Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN