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Atrebates

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English

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Noun

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Atrebates pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) A Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.

Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Proper noun

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Atrebatēs m pl (genitive Atrebatum); third declension

  1. A tribe of Gallia Belgica, situated between the rivers Somme and Scheldt

Declension

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Third-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative Atrebatēs
genitive Atrebatum
dative Atrebatibus
accusative Atrebatēs
ablative Atrebatibus
vocative Atrebatēs

Derived terms

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Noun

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Atrebatēs m pl

  1. nominative plural of Atrebās

References

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  • 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.