Editing Salisbury (section)

==Toponymy==

''Cair-Caratauc'', one of 28 cities of the [[Ancient Britons]] listed in the ''[[History of the Britons]]'' (9th century), has been identified with Salisbury.<ref name="mommy">{{cite wikisource |last=Nennius |first=(Traditional attribution) |author-link=Nennius |editor-first=Theodor |editor-last=Mommsen |editor-link=Theodor Mommsen |title=Historia Brittonum |volume=VI |wslanguage=la |wslink=Historia Brittonum#VI. CIVITATES BRITANNIAE |origyear=Composed after A.D. 830}}</ref><ref name=shusher>{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=John Henry |title=Lives of the English Saints: St. German, Bishop of Auxerre |publisher=James Toovey |year=1844 |location=London |page=92 |chapter=Chapter X: Britain in 429, A.D.<!--sic--> |display-authors=etal |chapter-url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Lives-of-the-English-Saints-St-Gilbert-Prior-of-Sempringham-Volume-3/527392/459 |access-date=16 December 2014 |archive-date=21 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321234154/http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Lives-of-the-English-Saints-St-Gilbert-Prior-of-Sempringham-Volume-3/527392/459 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Alternative names for the city, in the Welsh ''[[Brut y Brenhinedd|Chronicle of the Britons]]'' (12th century) were ''Caer-Caradog'', ''Caer-Gradawc'', and ''Caer-Wallawg.''<ref>{{harvnb|Roberts|1811|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mso_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA135 135]}}.</ref><ref>Welsh Prose 1300–1425. [http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/ms-page.php?ms=Jesus111&page=147r&l=c600l38 "Oxford Jesus College MS.&nbsp;111 (The Red Book of Hergest)&nbsp;– page 147r: Trioedd Ynys Prydain, Cas Bethau, Enwau ac Anrhyfeddodau Ynys Prydain", col.&nbsp;600] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924090910/http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/ms-page.php?ms=Jesus111&page=147r&l=c600l38 |date=24 September 2015 }}. University of Cardiff (Cardiff), 2014. {{in lang|owl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Peter |title=The Chronicle of the Kings of Britain; Translated from the Welsh Copy Attributed to Tysilio; Collated with Several Other Copies, and Illustrated with Copious Notes; to Which Are Added, Original Dissertations |publisher=E. Williams |year=1811 |location=London |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mso_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA150 150]–151 }}</ref> 

By the Roman era, the name had become ''Sorbiodūnum''; the first part was of unknown origin, although the [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] suffix  ''-dūnon'' meant "fortress". The name first recorded during the Anglo-Saxon era was ''Searoburg'' ([[dative case|dative]] ''Searobyrig''), around the end of the 9th century. This was a partial [[calque]] of the Roman name, with ''burg'' being the [[Old English]] word for "fort". [[Middle English]] ''Sarisberie'' was abbreviated as ''Sar'', which in turn gave rise to the latinization "Sarum".<ref>Mills, David. [https://books.google.com/books?id=br8xcW1f_a8C ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019020038/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=br8xcW1f_a8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 |date=19 October 2016 }}. Oxford University Press, 2003.</ref>