Bibracte

Bibracte ?

1. a Gaulish oppidum near Autun in Burgundy

Uncertain; perhaps from a Celtic (Gaulish) word for “beaver," from Proto-Celtic *bebrus, or from the term biffractus (“twice fortified”, literally “double force-breaking”), from bi +‎ fractus, though this is less probable, as the battlement was not likely to have two walls.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bɪˈbrak.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [biˈbrak.te]

Bibracte n sg (genitive Bibractis); third declension

1. Bibracte (ancient town in Gaul near modern Autun, France)

Third-declension noun (neuter, parisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.

• “Bibracte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Bibracte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.