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Getulian, a. and n.|gɪˈtjuːlɪən|
Also Gætulian, Getulan.
[f. L. Gætūli, Gētūli, ad. Gr. Γαιτοῦλοι, perh. from Berber root.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient nomadic Berber people inhibiting the desert region to the south and east of Numidia or to the region under their control.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 659 This Getulian or Barbarian Squirrell, is of mixt colour, as it were betwixt black and red. 1697Dryden Virgil's æneis iv. 56 Getulian Cities here are spread around. 1850W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Roman Biogr. II. 636/1 Some of the Gaetulian tribes were at the same time subjected to his sway. 1935A. Toynbee Study Hist. I. 241 An infiltration of ‘Getulan’ Nomadic hunters from North-West Africa. 1950Chambers's Encycl. X. 126/1 A new kingdom of Mauritania now limited Numidia in the west, as did a confederacy of free Gaetulian tribes in the south.
b. Archæol. (See quots.)
1927Peake & Fleure Hunters & Artists iv. 40 It [the Capsian industry]..seems to occur in two cultural regions, an eastern or Getulian, and a western or Ibero-Maurusian, each of which displays characteristic differences. 1932Antiquity June 193 In North Africa the Upper Palaeolithic industries are known as Capsian (Early and Late, or Getulian).
B. n. One of the Getulian people.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 201 The Getulians fought with them with Speares and Dartes. 1854W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Roman Biogr. I. 925/2 The ancients clearly recognised the distinction between the Gaetulians and the Negro peoples who dwelt S. of them. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 360/1 The Berber tribes..bore in ancient times the generic names of Numidians, Gaetulians and Moors or Maurusiani. 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 48 And others [sc. migrants], conveniently termed Getulans, remained in North Africa. |