Suebi

See also: suebi

English

Alternative forms

• Suevi

Etymology

From Latin Suēbī, from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsweɪbi/

Noun

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

• Galician: suevos m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Sueben (de) m pl

Anagrams

• Ebisu, Subei, Subie, busie

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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.

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 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.