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Marcomanni, n. pl. Hist.|ˌmɑːkəʊˈmænɪ|
[a. L. Marcomanni, of Germanic origin: cf. mark n.1, man n.1]
An ancient Germanic people of the Suevian group who inhabited parts of central Europe to the north of the Danube.
1598R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie in Annales vi. 269 Neere unto the Hermundarians dwell the Narisci, the Marcomani, and Quadi. 1611Coryat Crudities 444 The people called Marcomanni (which are now those of Morauia). 1738Chambers Cycl. II. f. 12 l/2, The expedition of the emperor Marcus Aurelius against the Sarmatæ, Quadi, and Marcomanni. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. p. xxxix/2, A king of the Marcomanni, a Suevic tribe. 1856C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xliii. 63 The Marcomanni..had kept Tiberius himself at bay, and sent him back unlaurelled across the Danube. 1935H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe I. viii. 84 In 161 A.D. a horde of barbarians, the Marcomanni from Bohemia, the Quadi from Moravia,..besieged Aquileia. 1976King & McLintock Knight Bostock's Handbk. Old High German (ed. 2) ii. 21 The Marcomanni are last heard of in Pannonia at the end of the fourth century, where they presumably became subjects of the Huns, who occupied Pannonia in 433.
Hence Marcoˈmannic a.
1661D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls I. xix. 50 Nor can we, lastly, derive any recommendation..from the Letter, which the Emperour Aurelian, engaged in the Marcomannick War, writ to the Senate. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 20/2 The Semnones and Langobardi were at one time subject to the dominion of the Marcomannic king Maroboduus, and at a much later period we hear of Langobardic troops taking part against the Romans in the Marcomannic War. |