Latin

Alternative forms

• Brītō̆

Noun

Brittō m ‎(genitive Brittōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third declension.

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".

• Catalan: bretó, britó
• English: Breton, Briton
• French: Breton
• Old Portuguese: breton
  • Galician: bretón
  • Portuguese: bretão

References

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