Suebi

See also: suebi

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Suēbī

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsweɪbi/

Noun

Suebi pl (plural only)

  1. A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Suēbus, Suēvus, from Proto-West Germanic *swāb (Suebian).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Suēbī m pl (genitive Suēbōrum); second declension

  1. a Germanic tribe in southwestern Germany, corresponding roughly to modern Swabia

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative Suēbī
genitive Suēbōrum
dative Suēbīs
accusative Suēbōs
ablative Suēbīs
vocative Suēbī

Derived terms

  • Suēbia

Proper noun

Suēbī

  1. genitive of Suēbus

References

  • Suebi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Suebi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.