Suebi

See also: suebi

English

Alternative forms

• Suevi

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Suēbī, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

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

• German: Sueben (de) m pl
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Anagrams

• Ebisu, Subei, Subie, busie

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) Suēbī

1. a Germanic tribe in southwestern Germany, corresponding roughly to modern Swabia.
2. 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.