Suebi

See also: suebi

English

Alternative forms

• Suevi

Etymology

From Latin Suēbī, from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

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.

Translations

group of Germanic tribes

• Catalan: sueus m pl
• Galician: suevos m pl
• German: Sueben (de) m pl
• Italian: Svevi
• Swedish: sveber (sv) c pl, svever c pl
• Turkish: Sueviler pl

Anagrams

• Ebisu, Subei, Subie, busie

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /suˈeː.biː/, [s̠uˈeːbiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈe.bi/, [suˈɛːbi]

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.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Suēbī
Genitive	Suēbōrum
Dative	Suēbīs
Accusative	Suēbōs
Ablative	Suēbīs
Vocative	Suēbī

Derived terms

• Suēbia

Proper noun

Suēbī

1. nominative plural 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.