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Augustonemetum
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Latin
Etymology
The Roman conquest of the city combined the name of emperor la Augustus with the city's original la cel -/la cel-gau - name, la cel-pro *nemetom sanctuary, holy place, from cel-pro *nemos heaven, sky. Together, they mean "sanctuary of Augustus".
Pronunciation
Augustonemetum
Proper noun
Augustonemetum<2.loc>
A town of the Arverni in Aquitania, now Clermont-Ferrand
Declension
Augustonemetum<2.loc>
References
The Celtic Origin of a Great Part of the Greek and Latin Languages,: And of Many Classical Proper Names, Proved by a Comparison of Greek and Latin with the Gaelic Language Or the Celtic of Scotland, p. 58
la France Towns