Extrait de la carte Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain.

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Archéologie

Étymologie : 

A. Verlucio : 

* Rivet & Smith : 

Source : 

- Itinéraire d'Antonin 486₄ (Iter XIV) : VERLUCIONE.

Derivation : The name represents British Uerluciu for older Uerleuciu, nominative, accommodated in the Latin third declension; its sense is 'very bright place '. The Celtic prefix *uer- has as cognates super- (s-uper), uper, English over, etc.; in Gaulish *uer-, in British *uer- and later *uor-, represented in modem derivatives such as Welsh gwor-, gor-; in Cornish and Breton; also Irish for, for- 'on, over'. Its sense is thus intensive, 'very', and augmentative, 'great'. See for many names into which it enters Holder III. 179 and GPN 279-81. It is present in British Vernemetum 'fanum ingens' and Virvedrum (for *Ver-), Verturiones, Verubium, also in the name of the famous Vortigern, *Vertigernos 'superbus tyrannus' = 'great prince'. The base lucis as in Leuca and related names (see LEUCA) ; the original diphthong is here reduced via O to U (see ALAUNA (1) and references there to LHEB). The name is completed by the derivational suffix *-io-.

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman settlement at Sandy Lane, Calne, Wiltshire (ST 9667).

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B. Calne : 

- Eilert Ekwall : "Calne 955 BCS (912), 978 ASC (E), DB, et Calnae 997 KCD 698, Cauna DB. Originally the name of Abberd Brook, on which the place stands. See Colne". 

- A.D Mills : "Calne. 955, 1086 DB. A pre-English river-name of uncertain meaning".

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C. Sandy Lane : 

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Note JC Even : Pour comparaison, voir l'analyse faite par Bernard Tanguy du toponyme Caulnes, nom de commune des Côtes d'Armor.

Sources : 

* Eilert EKWALL : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1936 - 1980.

* I.A RICHMOND : Roman Britain. Penguin. Books. 1955 - 1973.

* Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain. 1956.

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : Place-Names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979 - 1982.

* A.D MILLS : Oxford Dictionary of British Place-names. Oxford University Press. 1991 - 2003.

* Bernard TANGUY : Dictionnaire des noms de communes, trèves et paroisses des Côtes d'Armor. ArMen - Le Chasse-Marée. 1992.

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