The city was mentioned in Latin texts, by Caesar, with the spelling Genava, [26] probably from the Celtic *genawa-from the stem *genu-("mouth"), in the sense of an estuary, an etymology shared with the Italian port city of Genoa (in Italian Genova). [27] [28]The medieval county of Geneva in Middle Latin was known as pagus major Genevensis or Comitatus Genevensis (also Gebennensis). More @Wikipedia
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