Editing Dover (section)

===Etymology===
First recorded in its Latinised form of ''[[Portus Dubris]]'', the name derives from the [[Common Brittonic|Brythonic]] word for water ({{lang|wlm|dwfr}} in [[Middle Welsh]], {{lang|cy|dŵr}} in [[Welsh Language|Modern Welsh]] apart from '' 'dwfrliw' '' (Watercolour) which has retained the old Welsh spelling, {{lang|br|dour}} in [[Breton language|Breton]]). The same element is present in the town's French name {{lang|fr|Douvres}} and the name of the river, [[river Dour|''Dour'']], which is also evident in other English towns such as [[Wendover]]. However, the modern [[Welsh Language|Modern Welsh]] name {{lang|cy|Dofr}} is an adaptation of the English name ''Dover''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=dover#:~:text=English%3A%20habitational%20name%20from%20the,Welsh%20dwfr%20'water').|title=Website|website=ancestry.co.uk|access-date=2020-09-20|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028214408/https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=dover#:~:text=English%3A%20habitational%20name%20from%20the,Welsh%20dwfr%20'water').|url-status=live}}</ref>

The current name was in use at least by the time of Shakespeare's ''[[King Lear]]'' (between 1603 and 1606), in which the town and its cliffs play a prominent role.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Goldberg |first1=Jonathan |title=Dover Cliff and the Conditions of Representation: King Lear 4:6 in Perspective |journal=Poetics Today |date=1984 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=537–547|doi=10.2307/1772378 |jstor=1772378 }}</ref>