Allobroges

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English

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Noun

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Allobroges pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) A Gallic people dwelling in a large territory between the Rhône river and the Alps mountains during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Allobrogas, found in some sections of Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico.

Etymology

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A latinized form of Gaulish *Allobrogis (plural of *Allobrox). It is composed of the Celtic roots 'allo-', see Gaulish allos (other, second), cognate with Latin alius (other) and English else, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos (other, another) and of the root 'brogi-' ('territory, region, march'), which would translate to 'those from another country', exile or stranger.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Allobrogēs m pl (genitive Allobrogum); third declension

  1. A Gaulish tribe, whose territory lay between the Rhodanus and the Isara

Declension

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Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Allobrogēs
Genitive Allobrogum
Dative Allobrogibus
Accusative Allobrogēs
Ablative Allobrogibus
Vocative Allobrogēs

Derived terms

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References

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  • Allobroges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Allobroges”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly