burgus

Etymology
First attested in the early second century CE, of provenance: It is no doubt a borrowing, but it could be from, , or rather a lost Balkan cognate: it is a word that travelled far, even to earliest 🇨🇬 as. The forest of Teutoburg appears mentioned as early as Tacitus (Annales, I, 60: “Teutoburgiensis saltus”), who describes the events that occurred more than half a century earlier (9 CE).

Noun

 * 1)  A fort or castle, especially a smaller one; a watchtower.
 * 2)  A fortified town; a walled town.
 * 3)  A borough: a town specially incorporated and with special rights.