Quadin.
/ˈkweɪdi/, /ˈkwɑːdi/, U.S. /ˈkweɪdi/, /ˈkwɑdi/ With plural agreement. An ancient Germanic people of the Suevian group who were inhabiting Moravia by the beginning of the 1st cent. a.d.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 33 So þat in a tyme þe emperour fauȝt aȝenst þe Quades, and his men faillede wel nygh for defaute of drynke, and God Almyȝti sent hem reyn from hevene.
1565 A. Golding in tr. Eyght Bookes Caesar sig. Mm.iiii v Heluetians, the Switzers or Swicers and (and as som holde opinion) the Quades.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie vi, in Annales 269 Neere unto the Hermundarians dwell the Narisci, the Marcomani, and Quadi [L. Quadi].
1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ v. 305 The Saxons..sent out the Quadi, a part of their own People, into the Roman Territories.
a1727 I. Newton Observ. Prophecies Daniel (1733) i. v. 39 The Quades and Marcomans were Suevian nations; and they and the Suevians came originally from Bohemia.
1788 Encycl. Brit. II. 102/2 Antoninus's army being blocked up by the Quadi, in a very disadvantageous place.
1892 T. Hodgkin Italy & her Invaders (ed. 2) I. i. 199 [Petronius Probus] had to stem the torrent of barbarian invasion caused by the righteous indignation of the Quadi at the treacherous murder of Gabinius their king.
2001 Polit. Chronol. Europe 240 As the Western Roman Empire disintegrated, several Germanic tribes, including the Vandals, Suevi, Quadi and Alani migrated to Iberia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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