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Elle a donné son nom au fort romain Derventio / Papcastle. Voir le point 4 de la carte ci-contre.

* Rivet & Smith (1979-1982) : 

DERVENTIO (4)

SOURCE

- Ravenna 108₃₁ :  DORVANTIUM

DERIVATION. See DERVENTIO (1). If this name were isolated, one might be tempted to think Ravenna's Dor- a version of Duro-, and to think the ending analogous to that of Derventum in Gaul. But the association of it with other British Derventio names is clear, and the relation to Derventio 3 (a fort) clinches the matter. In Ravenna the ending is hardly a mistake for nominative -io, but a garbled version of -ion(e); or perhaps the compiler, who often wrote Vulgar Latin -on for classical -um, here mistakenly reversed the process.

IDENTIFICATION. The river Derwent, Cumberland.

Note. Bede in IV, 29, mentions Deruventionis fluvii primordia 'sources of the Derwent' (also a large mere, which is Derwentwater). For the form Deruv-, see the Note to Derventio 1. In his prose Life of St Cuthbert (Migne, Patrologia, XCIV, col. 768) Bede has a further mention of river and lake : Qui in insula stagni illius pergrandis de quo Diorwentionis fluvii primordia erumpunt.. ., showing a different source with a greater adaptation, perhaps, to local pronunciation.

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* M.N Bouillet : Dictionnaire Universel d'histoire et de géographie. Hachette. 1863.

* A.L.F Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. B.T Batsford Ltd. London. 1979. Edition 1982.

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