English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin Parīsiī

Noun edit

Parisii pl (plural only)

  1. A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Lutetia; Paris, the capital of France, is named after them.
  2. A British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single reference by Ptolemy, and possibly connected with the more widely known Parisii of Gaul.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Transalpine Gaulish *parios (cauldron), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Proper noun edit

Parīsiī m pl (genitive Parīsiōrum); second declension

  1. The Parisii, a Celtic tribe

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Parīsiī
Genitive Parīsiōrum
Dative Parīsiīs
Accusative Parīsiōs
Ablative Parīsiīs
Vocative Parīsiī

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Old French: Paris
  • Sicilian: Parisi

References edit

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