Latobici

Latobici (Latovici, Λατόβικοι) were a Celtic[1] tribe settling in modern-day Slovenia and mentioned by Ptolemy.[2] In Roman times, their cities were Praetorium Latobicorum (modern Trebnje) and Municipium Latobicorum, or later Neviodunum (modern Drnovo)

For the tribe of the same name mentioned in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico, see Latobrigi.

Name

The ethnonym Latobici appears to be related to the theonym Latobios, and possibly means 'the lineage of Latobios'.[3] At any rate, it is likely connected to the Gaulish root *lāto- which either meant 'furor, ardour' (cf. Old Irish láth, Welsh lawd) or 'plain' (from the Indo-European root *pelh₂-, with the well-known loss of the initial p- in Celtic languages).[4]

References
  1. Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0-631-19807-5,page 256, "... established among the predominantly Celtic communities of the Latobici and Varciani. Only later, in the reign of Trajan (AD 98-117), does the Roman citizenship begin to appear among the ..."
  2. Ptolemy, Geography, 2,14,2.
  3. Lambert 1994, p. 34.
  4. Delamarre 198, p. 198.
Bibliography
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental. Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.
  • Lambert, Pierre-Yves (1994). La langue gauloise: description linguistique, commentaire d'inscriptions choisies. Errance. ISBN 978-2-87772-089-2.
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