Gepid

English

Etymology

From Latin Gepidae.

Noun

Gepid (plural Gepids or Gepidae)

(historical) A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.
- 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V:
  A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general.
- 1906, William Dudley Foulke, History of the Langobards, translation of original by Diaconus Paulus, page 42:
  The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee.
- 1989, Walter Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 178:
  Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity.

Anagrams

pidge

单词	Gepid
释义	Gepid English Etymology From Latin Gepidae. Noun Gepid (plural Gepids or Gepidae) (historical) A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths. 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V: A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general. 1906, William Dudley Foulke, History of the Langobards, translation of original by Diaconus Paulus, page 42: The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee. 1989, Walter Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 178: Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity. Anagrams pidge
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