Celtic

• Keltic (rare)

Borrowed from French celtique or Latin celticus. First attested in the 17th century.

• (UK, US) enPR: kĕlʹtĭk, sĕlʹtĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛltɪk/, (dated outside sports) /ˈsɛltɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛltɪk

Celtic (countable and uncountable, plural Celtics)

1. A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.

   Hyponyms: Brythonic, Goidelic

2. Any of several sports teams. See Wikipedia for a list.
3. (countable) A player for any of several teams named the Celtics.

   After the draft, Brown became a Celtic for six years.

4. (soccer) Celtic F.C., a football club from Glasgow, Scotland.

• The pronunciation /s/, considered standard until the early 20th century,^[1] is conserved in a few proper names, notably in the names of some sports teams.

• Category:English terms derived from Celtic languages

• ISO 639-5 code cel [1]

Celtic (comparative more Celtic, superlative most Celtic)

1. Of or relating to the Celts.
2. (linguistics) Of the languages spoken by Celts.
   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:

     Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […] .

• Celt

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