Helvetii
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Helvetii, from a Celtic name. First element from Proto-Celtic *ɸelus (“many”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁us (“many”); second element said to be from Celtic root *ɸeitu (“grassland, terrain”), which shares an origin with Old Irish íath (“grassland, territory”).
Proper noun
editHelvetii pl
- (historical) A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.
Translations
editGallic tribe
References
edit- Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003), pp. 162 and 168.
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /helˈu̯eː.ti.iː/, [hɛɫ̪ˈu̯eːt̪iː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /elˈvet.t͡si.i/, [elˈvɛt̪ː͡s̪iː]
Proper noun
editHelvētiī m pl (genitive Helvētiōrum); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | Helvētiī |
Genitive | Helvētiōrum |
Dative | Helvētiīs |
Accusative | Helvētiōs |
Ablative | Helvētiīs |
Vocative | Helvētiī |
Adjective
editHelvētiī
References
edit- “Helvetii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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