Britto

Latin

Alternative forms

Brītō̆

Etymology

See Britannia

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrit.toː/

Noun

Brittō m (genitive Brittōnis); third declension

An inhabitant of Britain, Briton.
An inhabitant of Brittany, Breton.

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Brittō	Brittōnēs
genitive	Brittōnis	Brittōnum
dative	Brittōnī	Brittōnibus
accusative	Brittōnem	Brittōnēs
ablative	Brittōne	Brittōnibus
vocative	Brittō	Brittōnēs

Related terms

Britannia
britannicus
britannus
Britannus, genitive singular and nominative plural Britannī

Descendants

Because Brittany (“Little Britain”) was settled at the end of the Roman era by migrants from Britain, the original descendants of Brittō often have the meaning "an inhabitant of Brittany", with a later reborrowing from Classical Latin being used to form the word for "an inhabitant of Great Britain".

Asturian: bretón
Catalan: bretó, britó
English: Breton, Briton
French: Breton
Old Portuguese: breton
- Galician: bretón
- Portuguese: bretão
Spanish: bretón

References

Britto or Brīto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Brītŏnes (Britt-) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “228/3”
“Brit(t)ō” on page 242/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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