Editing Trieste (section)

=={{anchor|Names and etymology}}Names and etymology==
{{See also|Names of Trieste in different languages}}
The most likely origin is a Celtic word, ''Tergeste'' – with the ''-est-'' suffix typical of [[Venetic language|Venetic]] – and derived from the hypothetical [[Illyrian language|Illyrian]] word ''*terg-'' "market" (etymologically cognate to the [[Albanian language|Albanian]] term {{Lang|sq|treg}} 'market, marketplace'<ref name="Vasmer1971" /> and reconstructed [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]] "*tъrgъ")<ref name="Vasmer1971">{{cite book |last=Vasmer |first=Max |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhuGAAAAIAAJ&q=+treg |title=Schriften zur slavischen Altertumskunde und Namenkunde |publisher=In Kommission bei O. Harrassowitz |year=1971 |isbn=978-3-447-00781-8 |page=50 |access-date=6 December 2010}}</ref><ref name="Baldi1983">{{cite book |last=Baldi |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Baldi |title=An introduction to the Indo-European languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lq-mkL23oh8C&pg=PA168 |access-date=6 December 2010 |year=1983 |publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-1091-3|page=168}}</ref><ref name="Cary1993">{{cite book |last=Cary |first=Joseph |title=A ghost in Trieste |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rv9P21kW8ygC&pg=PA48 |access-date=6 December 2010 |date=1993-11-15 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-09528-8 |page=48}}</ref> Roman authors also transliterated the name as ''Tergestum'' (according to [[Strabo]], the name of the [[oppidum]] Tergestum originated from the three battles the Roman Army had to engage in with local tribes, "TER GESTUM [BELLUM]"). Modern names of the city include: {{langx|it|Trieste}}, {{langx|sl|Trst}}, {{langx|de|Triest}}, {{langx|hu|Trieszt}}, {{lang-sh-Latn-Cyrl|separator=" / "|Trst|Трст}}, {{langx|pl|Triest}}, {{langx|el|Τεργέστη}} ''Tergésti'' and {{langx|cs|Terst}}.