Teutonic

Teutonic

See also: teutonic and teutònic

English

Alternative forms

• Teutonick

Etymology

PIE word
*tewtéh₂

1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton +‎ -ic.[1].

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtjuːˈtɒn.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk

Adjective

Teutonic (comparative more Teutonic, superlative most Teutonic)

1. Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.
2. Having qualities that are regarded as typical of German people.

   Teutonic exactitude

   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima

     He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?

3. (archaic) Relating to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Derived terms

• Teutonicism
• Teutonicize
• Teutonic Knights
• Teutonic Order

 

Related terms

• Teutonic Knights

Translations

relating to the ancient Germanic people

Bulgarian: тевто́нски (tevtónski) Catalan: teutó, teurònic Czech: teutonský Danish: teutonsk, teutonisk Dutch: Teutoons French: teutonique (fr) Galician: teutón m German: teutonisch (de) Hungarian: teuton (hu) Irish: (please verify) Gearmánach Italian: teutonico (it) Macedonian: те́втонски m (tévtonski) Polish: teutoński (pl) m, germański (pl) m Portuguese: teutônico (pt) Russian: тевто́нский (ru) (tevtónskij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѐуто̄нскӣ Roman: tèutōnskī (sh) Ukrainian: тевто́нський (tevtónsʹkyj)

having qualities regarded as typical of German people

Catalan: teutònic Czech: germánský (cs) Danish: teutonsk, teutonisk Dutch: Teutoons French: teutonique (fr) German: teutonisch (de) Irish: Gearmánach Italian: teutonico (it) Macedonian: те́втонски m (tévtonski) Russian: тевто́нский (ru) (tevtónskij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѐуто̄нскӣ Roman: tèutōnskī (sh)

Noun

Teutonic (plural Teutonics)

1. An ancient Germanic, or modern German, individual.

References

1. Teutŏni, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press