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{{short description|Gallic tribe}}
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The '''Cadurci''' were a [[Gauls|Gallic]] tribe dwelling in the later region of [[Quercy]] (in present-day France) during the [[La Tène culture|Iron Age]] and the [[Roman period]].
== Name ==
They are mentioned as ''Cadurcus'' by [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] (mid-1st c. BC),<ref>[[Julius Caesar|Caesar]]. ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'', 7:4:6.</ref> ''Kadou͂rkoi'' (Καδοῦρκοι) by [[Strabo]] (early 1st c. AD) and [[Ptolemy]] (2nd c. AD),<ref>[[Strabo]]. ''Geōgraphiká'', 4:2:2; [[Ptolemy]]. ''Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis,'' 2:7:9.</ref> and as ''Cadurci'' by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (1st c. AD).<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. ''Naturalis Historia'', 4:109.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. ''Cadurci''.</ref>
The etymology of the [[ethnonym]] ''Cadurci'' remains uncertain. [[Pierre-Yves Lambert]] has proposed to interpret it as a [[haplology]] (loss of syllabe) for the [[Gaulish language|Gaulish]] [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] ''Catu-turci'' ('battle-boars'), formed with the root ''catu-'' ('combat, battle') attached to the plural of ''turcos'' ('[[wild boar]]').{{Sfn|Lambert|1994|p=46}}{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=304}}
The city of [[Cahors]], attested ca. 400 AD as ''civitas Cadurcorum'' ('[[civitas]] of the Cadurci', ''Cauricio'' in 1200, ''Caurs'' 1279), and the region of [[Quercy]], attested in 565 AD as ''Cadurcinus'' (''pagus Catorcinus'' in 628, ''Caercino'' in 1095, with Latin suffix ''-inus''), are named after the Gallic tribe.{{Sfn|Nègre|1990|pp=152–143}}
== Geography ==
The Cadurci dwelled in the region of [[Quercy]]. Their chief town was originally named Divona (present-day [[Cahors]]).{{Sfn|Nègre|1990|p=152}}
== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===
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* {{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|date=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}}
*{{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236}}
*{{Cite book|last=Lambert|first=Pierre-Yves|title=La langue gauloise: description linguistique, commentaire d'inscriptions choisies|year=1994|publisher=Errance|isbn=978-2-87772-089-2|author-link=Pierre-Yves Lambert}}
* {{Cite book|last=Nègre|first=Ernest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsNpi7IVulEC|title=Toponymie générale de la France|date=1990|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-02883-7|author-link=Ernest Nègre}}
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