Noviomagus

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Various ancient settlements bore the Romanized Celtic place name Noviomagus :

  • Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum , city of the Batavians, today Nijmegen in the province of Gelderland
  • Noviomagus Biturigum , city of the Biturigians
  • Noviomagus Cantiacorum , city of the Cantiaci, probably today's Crayford near London
  • Noviomagus Lexoviorum , city of the Lexovians, now Lisieux in the Calvados department
  • Noviomagus Nemetum or Civitas Nemetum , city of the Nemeter, today Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Noviomagus Regnorum or Noviomagus Regnensium , town of Regni, now Chichester in West Sussex
  • Noviomagus Remorum , city of the Remer
  • Noviomagus Treverorum , city of the Treverians, today Neumagen-Dhron near Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Noviomagus Tricastinorum , later Augusta Tricastinorum , then Colonia Flavia Tricastinorum , today Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux in the Drôme department in France
  • Noviomagus Veromanduorum , town of the Viromandu, now Noyon in the Oise department

Meaning and variant

-magos is a basic word in Celtic place names. It goes back to the Celtic word magos "field", "plane". The Celtic adjective novios means "new". Noviomagus can therefore be translated as "Neufeld".

The predominantly Rhenish place names ending in -magen , such as Durnomagus ( Dormagen ) and Rigomagus ( Remagen ), or Borbetomagus ( Worms ) also belong to this group.

The appellative -magus is hardly recognizable in French place names such as Rouen ( Rotomagus ), Caen ( Catomagus ), Carentan / Charenton ( Carentomagus ), where it has become -en / -an / -on .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Whitley Stokes : Urkeltischer Sprachschatz , translated and edited by Adalbert Bezzenberger , Göttingen 1894 online (reprint 1979: ISBN 978-3-525-26404-1 ), page 195: novio-s , page 198 f .: magos-