oppidum

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oppidum

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin oppidum (“(chiefly walled or fortified) town”).

noun oppida

A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture. ‘Mount Ceasar’ was a major oppidum of the Bellovaci tribe and almost certainly the tribal capital: its geographical relationship to the nearby Roman capital of Beauvais is typical of a post-conquest tribal resettlement.

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@misc{oppidum_2026,
  title = {oppidum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oppidum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}