Atrebates

English

Noun

Atrebates pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.

Latin

Etymology

From Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *trebā (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”). Loaned through French into English as artesian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈtre.ba.teːs/, [äˈt̪rɛbät̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈtre.ba.tes/, [äˈt̪rɛːbät̪es]

Proper noun

Atrebatēs m pl (genitive Atrebatum); third declension

1. A tribe of Gallia Belgica, situated between the rivers Somme and Scheldt

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Atrebatēs
Genitive	Atrebatum
Dative	Atrebatibus
Accusative	Atrebatēs
Ablative	Atrebatibus
Vocative	Atrebatēs

Derived terms

• Atrebaticus

Noun

Atrebatēs m pl

1. nominative plural of Atrebās

References

• “Atrebates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Atrebates”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Atrebates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.