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Suevian, a. and n.|ˈswiːvɪən|
[f. L. Suēvus, var. Suēbus (see Suebic) + -ian. Cf. Swabian.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to a confederation of Germanic tribes called by the Romans Suēvī (Suēbī), which inhabited large territories in Central Europe to the east of the Rhine.
B. n. Any individual of these tribes.
1617[see slovenliness]. a1727Newton Observ. Dan. i. v. (1733) 39 The Quades and Marcomans were Suevian nations; and they and the Suevians came originally from Bohemia. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XI. 246/1 The mixed host of Vandals, Burgundians, Alans, and Suevians. 1889J. B. Bury Hist. Later Rom. Emp. ii. vi. I. 155 The Vandals abandoned their blockade of the Suevians.
So ˈSuevic, † ˈSuevical adjs.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 53 b, George Truckese, chiefe capitaine of the Suevical league. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. p. xxxix/2, A king of the Marcomanni, a Suevic tribe. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome iii. 129 The second great Suevic tribe, or federation of tribes, were the Alemanni. 1909Contemp. Rev. Sept. 331 Visigothic Spain..had absorbed the Suevic kingdom of Galicia. |