The Brixentes or Brixenetes were a Celtic or Rhaetian tribe living in the Alps during the Iron Age and the Roman era.
[4] The Celtic ethnic name Brixentes might derive from an earlier form *brig-s-ant-, built on the root brig- ('hill, hillfort').
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.
[4] 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,[9][3][10][11] which, according to this theory, could be reconstructed as *Brigsa,[5] or *Brigsina.
[9] They are mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Alpine tribes conquered by Rome in 16–15 BC, and whose name was engraved on the Tropaeum Alpium.