Cadurci

The Cadurci were a Gallic tribe living in the region of Quercy.[1]

Name

They are mentioned as Cadurcus by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC),[2] as Kadou͂rkoi (Καδοῦρκοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD) and Ptolemy (2nd c. AD),[3][4] and as Cadurci by Pliny (1st c. AD).[5][6]

The etymology of the name Cadurci is uncertain. Pierre-Yves Lambert has proposed that it may be the contraction of the Gaulish name Catu-turci ('battle-boars'), formed with the root catu- ('combat, battle') attached to turcos ('wild boar').[7]

The city of Cahors, attested as civitas Cadurcorum ca. 400 CE ('civitas of the Cadurci', Cauricio in 1200, Caurs 1279), and the region of Quercy (Caercino in 1095, attached to the Latin suffix -inus), are named after the Gallic tribe.[1]

Geography

The Cadurci dwelled in the region of Quercy, attested as pagus Catorcinus in 628.[1] Their capital city was originally named Divona (present-day Cahors).[1]

References
  1. Nègre 1990, p. 152.
  2. Caesar. Commentarii de Bello Gallico, 7:4:6
  3. Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:2:2
  4. Ptolemy. Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, 2:7:9
  5. Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 4:109
  6. Falileyev 2010, p. entry 3075.
  7. Delamarre 2003, p. 304.

Bibliography
  • Delamarre, Xavier (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (in French). Errance. ISBN 9782877723695.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
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