Editing Cirencester (section)

==Etymology==
Cirencester's name is first attested by [[Ptolemy]] around 150 CE, though the earliest surviving manuscripts are from the thirteenth century. These give various slightly different spellings, of which the original seems to have been {{lang|grc|Κορίνιον}} ({{lang|la|Corinium}}). The etymology of this name is, however, unknown.<ref>''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'', ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. CORINIUM; {{ISBN|9780521168557}}.</ref> The same name is found in [[River Churn]], which passes through the town (and which, with the addition of the Old English word {{lang|ang|ēa}} ('river') in turn gave its name to [[North Cerney]], [[South Cerney]], and [[Cerney Wick]]).<ref name=":0">''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society'', ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. CIRENCESTER; {{ISBN|9780521168557}}.</ref>

As the Celtic languages changed, this name became [[Proto-Welsh]] ''Cerin''. This proto-Welsh name was adopted into English in the course of [[Celtic language-death in England]] with the addition of the Old English word {{lang|ang|ceaster}} ('Roman fortification'), and is first attested in this form as ''Cirenceaster'' in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (a text which took its present form in the later ninth century). The name also persisted in Welsh, also first being attested in the ninth century, in writings of [[Asser]], in the form ''Cair Ceri''.<ref name=":0" />