burgus.
castle, fort, fortress; fortified town (medieval), borough;
Meaning & usage
A fort or castle, especially a smaller one; a watchtower.
A fortified town; a walled town.
A borough: a town specially incorporated and with special rights.
Where this word comes from
First attested in the early second century CE, of uncertain provenance: It is no doubt a borrowing, but it could be from Proto-West Germanic *burg, Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), or rather a lost Balkan cognate: it is a word that travelled far, even to earliest Arabic as بُرْج (burj). The forest of Teutoburg appears mentioned as early as Tacitus (Annales, I, 60: “Teutoburgiensis saltus”), who describes the events that occurred more than half a century earlier (9 CE).
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