Atrebates
English
Noun
Atrebates pl (plural only)
- (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 *adtrebates (“inhabitants”), from *attrebā, 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 Latin) IPA(key): [aˈtrɛ.ba.teːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈt̪rɛː.ba.t̪es]
Proper noun
Atrebatēs m pl (genitive Atrebatum); third declension
- A tribe of Gallia Belgica, situated between the rivers Somme and Scheldt
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Atrebatēs |
| genitive | Atrebatum |
| dative | Atrebatibus |
| accusative | Atrebatēs |
| ablative | Atrebatibus |
| vocative | Atrebatēs |
Derived terms
- Atrebaticus
Noun
Atrebatēs m pl
- 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.