Redones

• Rhedones, Riedones

Borrowed from Latin Rēdonēs. Doublet of Rennes.

Redones pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A Gallic tribe dwelling in the eastern part of the Brittany peninsula during the Iron Age and subsequent Roman conquest of Gaul.

• Rhēdonēs

Also seen as Ancient Greek Ῥήδονες (Rhḗdones), Ῥηΐδονες (Rhēḯdones); the name means "those who use chariots" or "those who ride well," from Gaulish *reda (“chariot”), from Proto-Celtic *rēdo- (“to ride; riding, chariot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)reydʰ- (“to ride”). Cognate with modern Welsh gorwydd.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.dɔ.neːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.d̪o.nes]

Rēdonēs m pl (genitive Rēdonum); third declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Condate

Third-declension noun, plural only.

• Redones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Redones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Ranko Matasović - Toward a relative chronology of the earliest Baltic and Slavic sound changes, University of Zagreb, 2005
• Linguistically Celtic ethnonyms: towards a classification: EN Celtic and Other Languages in Ancient Europe