Barbanna

• Barbāna (in dictionaries)

Supposedly from Illyrian.

Barbanna m sg (genitive Barbannae); first declension

1. Buna (a river in modern-day Albania and Montenegro)

   Synonym: Boliana — New Latin

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 44.31.3:

     duo cingunt eam flumina, Clausal a latere urbis, quod in orientem patet, praefluens, Barbanna ab regione occidentis, ex Labeatide palude oriens

     two rivers surround it [Scodra], the Clausal flowing by the side of the city, which extends into East, the Barbanna from the western region flowing from lake Labeatis

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Barbana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Barbana”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Barbana”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.