Virac, Tarn


Virac is a commune in the Tarn department and Occitanie region of southern France.
WWW virac.fr

Etymology

The old forms are Viragio, towards 1100, Virag, in 1135, and according to Negre, Virac comes from the Latin name of man Virius with the suffix -acu-, Latinization of the Welsh suffix -āco. Virac was therefore perhaps an old great ancient property that had for teacher Virius. The choice of Black supposes the absorption of the second -i- by -r-. Always with -acum, Dauzat and Rostaing consider that the name of person is a Welsh name of man, *Viros, choice that is not far from that of Xavier Delamarre, Vīrios ; for Delamarre, the name of origin would be Uīriācon.