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The Brixentes or Brixenetes were a Celts or Rhaetian people tribe living in the Alps during the Iron Age and the Roman era.
The Celtic ethnic name Brixentes might derive from an earlier form * brig-s-ant-, built on the root brig- ('hill, hillfort') . It has been translated as 'those living on hills/hillforts', or as 'those living in the area of * Brigsa
Some scholars have pointed out that they are listed on the Tropaeum Alpium between the Calucones and the Lepontii, which would make modern-day eastern Switzerland or western Austria (in particular the area around Bregenz) a possible location.Frei-Stolba, Regula (1976): "Die römische Schweiz: Ausgewählte staats- und verwaltungsrechtliche Probleme im Frühprinzipat". In: Temporini, Hildegard; Haase, Wolfgang (eds.). Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. II Principat. De Gruyter, p. 288-403.von Planta, Peter Conradin (1872): Das alte Raetien staatlich und kulturhistorisch dargestellt. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, p. 46Menghin, Alois (1895): Scherer’s Geographie und Geschichte von Tirol und Vorarlberg. Wagner’schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, p. 135 This would further corroborate the corresponding information given by Strabo about the Brigántioi and by Ptolemy about the Brixántai.
Drawing on the similarity of the place name, some scholars have located the Brixentes at the confluence of the Eisack and Rienz rivers in modern-day South Tyrol, near the modern city of Brixen,, Map 19: Raetia. which, according to this theory, could be reconstructed as * Brigsa, or * Brigsina. This would place their territory south of the Isarci, west of the Saevates, east of the Venostes.
According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, the Brixentes were a Rhaetian tribe.Ptolemy. Geography, 2:12:2.
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