Salmantica

Latin Etymology From a pre-Roman place-name, possibly of la ine-pro - origin: according to Tovar, derived from an earlier hydronym or theonym ine-pro *Salmantia, containing the ancient European hydronymic root ine-pro *sal- water, flowing or agitated water, which he relates to la salum the open sea, and an element ine-pro *-mant- interpreted as expressing possession or abundance. The name may therefore originally have denoted the river now called the Tormes or a divinity embodied by it, with la Salmantica meaning approximately “the settlement beside the Salmantia”.Antonio Tovar, “Topónimos con -nt- en Hispania, y el nombre de Salamanca”, in Actes et mémoires du Cinquième Congrès International de Toponymie et d’Anthroponymie, volume 2, Salamanca, 1958, pages 95–116. Alternatively, Ruipérez interprets the initial element ine-pro *sala- as a Pre-Roman hydronym meaning “ford, shallow river crossing”, comparing other names such as Salas in Galiza, referring to a crossing of the Tormes, although the remainder of the name is unexplained under this proposal.Martín S. Ruipérez, “El nombre de Salamanca”, in Ágalma: ofrenda desde la Filología Clásica a Manuel García Teijeiro, Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 2014, pages 385–386. Pronunciation Salmantica Proper noun Salmantica<1.loc> a town of the Vettones in Lusitania situated on the southern bank of the Durius, now Salamanca Declension Salmantica<1.loc> References la Spain Towns