English Explanatory Dictionary

Brigantia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Celtic goddess of victory.
name
  1. The territory of the Brigantes, centred in what is now Yorkshire.

Word forms

Brigantia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Brigantia, from Proto-Celtic *Brigantī, *brigantī, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts, from the root *bʰerǵʰ-. Doublet of Bragança.

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