Drobeta-Turnu Severin

English Etymology From en ro Drobeta-Turnu Severin. Proper noun 1 en city county/Mehedinți c/Romania. Translations city in Romania Hungarian: hu Szörényvár Romanian: ro Drobeta-Turnu Severin f Ukrainian: uk Дробета-Турну-Северин m Romanian ro: Etymology Previously known as ro Turnu Severin, from ro turn tower + ro Severin, possibly from ro cu сѣверьнъ northern, from cu сѣверъ north, referring to its geographical position within the Second Bulgarian Empire. The city's name was originally linked by historians with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, during whose reign the name of the city was Drobeta Septimia Severiana. Another possible theory, is that Severin's name was taken in memory of Severinus of Noricum, who was the patron saint of the medieval colony Turnu, initially a suffragan of the Diocese of Kalocsa. Drobeta, which was the ancient Roman name for the city, was added back to the city's name in 1972. ro According to Hamp and Hyllested, Drobeta reflects a Roman misinterpretation of *Druwā-tā (the wooden place) with a postposed article, reflecting an old Albanian syntag for wood sq dru from ro sqj-pro *druwa-tai Hyllested, A., & Joseph, B. (2022). Albanian. In T. Olander (Ed.), The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective (pp. 223-245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108758666.013 Pronunciation ro /droˈbeta ˈturnu seveˈrin/ ro Ro-Drobeta-Turnu Severin.ogg ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Drobeta-Turnu Severin.wav Proper noun ro proper noun Drobeta-Turnu Severin f ro city county/Mehedinți in southwestern c/Romania in r/Oltenia References