Gainas

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡa.ɪ.naːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaː.i.nas]

Gainās m sg (genitive Gainae); first declension

1. A Gothic leader

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• “Gainas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray