Suebi

See also: suebi

English

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Etymology

From Latin Suēbī, from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

Noun

Suebi pl (plural only)

  1. A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

Noun

Suēbī

  1. a Germanic tribe in southwestern Germany, corresponding roughly to modern Swabia.
  2. nominative plural of Suēbus

References
  • Suebi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Suebi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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