Garumna

• Garonna

Probably from Gaulish *garunda (“shallows, riverbank”) or "rough, grassy," from Proto-Celtic *garwos << Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”). Or, possibly from an Aquitanian hydronym meaning "stony river."

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrum.na/, [ɡäˈrʊmnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrum.na/, [ɡäˈrumnä]

Garumna m sg (genitive Garumnae); first declension

1. One of the longest rivers in France, the Garonne

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Catalan: Garona
• French: Garonne
• → Ancient Greek: Γαρούνας (Garoúnas), Γαρύνας (Garúnas)
• Occitan: Garona

• Taylor, Isaac (1898): Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature

• “Garumna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Garumna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.