Vascones

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Οὐάσκωνες (Ouáskōnes) attested in Strabo's 1st-century Geographica, Book III, of uncertain origin. Variously derived from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) (literally “he-goat people”) or a variant of Ausci. According to Antonio Tovar, the name could have been from an exonym of entirely Proto-Indo-European origin given to the Basques by earlier Indo-Europeans inhabiting Basque country, based on the name ba(r)scunes found inscribed on coins matching the territory and period. The name would have been comprised of: the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, point, top”) the suffix *-kon- the consonant stem suffix *-es indicating the name as a nominative plural Thus, the name would have meant something like "the high (proud) people." === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwas.kɔ.neːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvas.ko.nes] === Proper noun === Vasconēs m pl (genitive Vasconum); third declension (historical) Vascones (a pre-Roman tribe between the Ebro and the Pyrenees in northeastern Hispania Tarraconensis generally taken to be the early Basques) (New Latin) Basques ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== French: basque→ English: Basque→ Welsh: Basg→ Romanian: basc⇒ Irish: Bascach, Bascais French: vascon French: gascon Galician: Bascuas (place name) Occitan: basc → English: Vascon === References === “Vascones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "Vascones", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “Vascones”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Vascones”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Vascones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly