Bellovaci

== English == === Noun === Bellovaci pl (plural only) (historical) A Belgic tribe inhabiting the modern Picardy region, near the present-day city of Beauvais, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. == Latin == === Etymology === Gaulish/Celtic name, possibly from Proto-Celtic *bellos (“speak, roar”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-) + *wakos (“curved(?), empty”), which is related to *wāstos and the second element of Segovax. Or, possibly a Roman exonym from bellum (“war”) + vacuus (“empty”), though this is unattested. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɛlˈlɔ.wa.kiː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [belˈlɔː.va.t͡ʃi] === Proper noun === Bellovacī m pl (genitive Bellovacōrum); second declension A tribe of Gallia Belgica, whose capital was Caesaromagus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, plural only. === References === “Bellovaci”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Bellovaci”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Bellovaci”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly Celtic Culture: A-Celti (2006)