Atrebates
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Atrebates pl (plural only)
- (historical) A Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *attrebā, from *trebā (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”). Loaned through French into English as artesian.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈtre.ba.teːs/, [äˈt̪rɛbät̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈtre.ba.tes/, [äˈt̪rɛːbät̪es]
Proper noun
[edit]Atrebatēs m pl (genitive Atrebatum); third declension
- A tribe of Gallia Belgica, situated between the rivers Somme and Scheldt
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun, plural only.
plural | |
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nominative | Atrebatēs |
genitive | Atrebatum |
dative | Atrebatibus |
accusative | Atrebatēs |
ablative | Atrebatibus |
vocative | Atrebatēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Atrebatēs m pl
References
[edit]- “Atrebates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Atrebates”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Atrebates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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