Editing Armorica (section)

== Name ==
The name ''Armorica'' is a Latinized form of the [[Gaulish]] [[toponym]] {{lang|xtg|Aremorica}}, which literally means 'place in front of the sea'. It is formed with the prefix ''are''- ('in front of') attached to -''mori''- ('sea') and the feminine suffix ''-(i)cā'', denoting the localization (or provenance). The inhabitants of the region were called ''Aremorici'' (<small>sing.</small> ''Aremoricos''), formed with the stem ''are-mori''- extended by the determinative suffix -''cos''. It is glossed by the Latin ''antemarini'' in [[Endlicher's Glossary]]. The Slavs use a similar formation, ''Po-mor-jane'' ('those in front of the sea'), to designate the inhabitants of [[Pomerania]].{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=53}} The Latin adjective ''Armoricani'' was an administrative term designating in particular a sector of the Roman defence line in Gaul in [[Late Antiquity]], the ''Tractus Armoricani'' ('Armorican Tract').<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bachrach|first=Bernard S.|date=1971|title=Procopius and the Chronology of Clovis's Reign|journal=Viator|volume=1|pages=21–32|doi=10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301706|issn=0083-5897}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Loriot|first=Xavier|date=2001|title=Un mythe historiographique : l'expédition de L. Artorius Castus contre les Armoricains|journal=Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France|volume=1997|pages=85–87|doi=10.3406/bsnaf.2001.10167}}</ref>

In medieval [[Insular Celtic languages]], the Celtic term ''*Litauia'', meaning 'Land' or 'Country' (from an original Proto-Celtic {{lang|xtg|*[[Litavis|Litauī]]}} 'Earth', <small>lit.</small> 'the Vast One'), came to be used to designate the Brittany Peninsula, as in [[Old Irish]] {{lang|sga|Letha}}'','' [[Old Welsh]] {{lang|owl|Litau}}, [[Old Breton]] {{lang|obt|Letau}}, or in the Latinized form {{lang|la|Letavia}}.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|pp=204–205}} 

In [[Breton language|Breton]], which belongs to the [[Brittonic languages|Brythonic]] branch of the Insular Celtic languages, along with [[Welsh language|Welsh]] and [[Cornish language|Cornish]], "on [the] sea" is ''war vor'' (Welsh ''ar fôr'', "f" being voiced and pronounced like English "v"), but the older form ''arvor'' is used to refer to the coastal regions of Brittany, in contrast to ''argoad'' (''ar'' "on/at", ''coad'' "forest" [Welsh ''ar goed'' or ''coed'' "trees"]) for the inland regions.<ref>The Irish form is ''ar mhuir'', the Manx is ''er vooir'' and the Scottish form ''air mhuir''. However, in those languages, the phrase means "on the sea", as opposed to ''ar thír'' or ''ar thalamh/ar thalúin'' (''er heer/er haloo'', ''air thìr/air thalamh'') "on the land".</ref> The cognate modern usages suggest that the Romans first contacted coastal people in the inland region and assumed that the regional name ''Aremorica'' referred to the whole area, both coastal and inland.