Alemanni

See also: alemanni

English

Etymology

From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”), from Proto-Germanic *Alamanniz, corresponding to *allaz + *mann-.

Noun

Alemanni (countable and uncountable, plural Alemanni)

1. A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
   • 1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‎^[1], page 271:

     The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.
2. An individual of or descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.

Adjective

Alemanni (not generally comparable, comparative more Alemanni, superlative most Alemanni)

1. Of or related to the Alemanni peoples.
   • 2007, Michael Curtis Ford, Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire, page 109:

     This time, however, his troops faced the full brunt of an Alemanni force that attacked them on the way.

2. Of or related to the Alemannic language or dialects.

See also

• Alemannic
• Suebi
• Swabian
• Swabish

Anagrams

• melanian

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) Alemannī

1. nominative plural of Alemannus
2. genitive singular of Alemannus
3. vocative plural of Alemannus

References

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