Berisamum

== Latin == === Etymology === From Gallaecian (Hispano-Celtic), perhaps from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise”) and the Celtic superlative suffix Proto-Celtic *-isamos. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɛˈrɪ.sa.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [beˈriː.s̬a.mum] === Proper noun === Berisamum n sg (genitive Berisamī); second declension a castellum of the Cileni, in Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis. Now possibly Beresmo, Galicia. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only. === References === E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Castellum Berisamum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/240891> [accessed: 03 April 2018] Hesperia. Banco de datos de lenguas paleohispánicas: Onom. 1581 Hispania Epigraphica n. 18642 Beresmo in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.