From: dgkilday57
Message: 67817
Date: 2011-06-20
>Interesting, but every student of Livy knows that Beneventum was altered from Maluentum after a Roman victory over Hannibal's forces there. Since it was situated on a lake, the meaning was most likely '(place) abounding in mallows'. Szemerenyi's explanation as 'hilly' or 'mountainous' makes no sense. At any rate, Beneventum can in no way be equated with Bannovanta.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
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> > I see no basis for Wikipedia's claim that <Venta> meant 'market',
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> There was apparently a medieval Latin <venta> 'Locus, ubi merces
> venum exponuntur' (<http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/VENTA2>), but
> that's hardly a sufficient basis. There's some discussion that I'd
> not seen before at <http://www.marikavel.org/angleterre/whilton-lodge/accueil.htm>.