Noricum

== English == === Proper noun === Noricum (historical) A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria. ==== Related terms ==== Norican == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Νώρικον (Nṓrikon), from an unknown source predating the Celts' arrival. Said to be a Phrygian or Thracian word, but of unclear meaning. Robert Ellis (1855) supports a relation to Phrygian νώρικον (nṓrikon, “(wine)skin”), offering the hypothesis that the place derived from the hollowness of the river-valley. For semantic parallel, he cites Welsh cwm (“valley”), which derives from Proto-Indo-European *kumbʰo-, *kumbʰéh₂- (“vessel”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnoː.rɪ.kũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɔː.ri.kum] === Proper noun === Nōricum n sg (genitive Nōricī); second declension A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only. === References === === Further reading === “Noricum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Noricum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.