The corpus record — Latin

Namnetes

Namnetes · m

a people in Celtic Gaul, near the site of Nantes

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Where it lives

De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Namnētes — Lewis & Short

Namnētes, um, m.,

I a people in Celtic Gaul, near the site of Nantes, Caes. B. G. 3, 9, 10; Plin. 4, 18, 32, § 107.—In sing.: Namnis, Inscr. Orell. 188.—

II Transf., the capital of the Namnetes, the modern Nantes, Ven. Ep. 3.

In the wild

Namnetes Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.9.10
Namnetes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.18

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.