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单词 Ostrogoth
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Definition of Ostrogoth in English:

Ostrogoth

noun ˈɒstrəɡɒθˈɑstrəˌɡɑθ
  • A member of the eastern branch of the Goths, who conquered Italy in the 5th–6th centuries AD.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This happened in Spain under the Visigoths and in Italy under the Ostrogoths, but both those kingdoms were swept away.
    • These groups are collectively termed the Goths (and individually known as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, and Vandals) and were prominent among the so-called barbarians who destroyed the Western Roman Empire.
    • The Ostrogoths attacked the western empire via the eastern empire.
    • The Ostrogoths settled in Italy, the Franks in northern Gaul, the Burgundians in Provence, the Visigoths in southern Gaul and Spain, the Vandals in Africa and the western Mediterranean, and the Angles and Saxons in England.
    • During the war that followed between Justinian and the Ostrogoths, the Slavs made repeated incursions into the provinces.

Derivatives

  • Ostrogothic

  • adjective ɒstrəˈɡɒθɪkˌɑstrəˈɡɑθɪk
    • Incredible as it may seem, a few of their descendants were still speaking Ostrogothic some fifteen centuries later, in 1780, at the time of the American Revolution.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Could those Crimeans really have been the last Goths, continuing to speak Ostrogothic for more than a thousand years after their kingdom fell?
      • They were succeeded by the Byzantines who got it back after an Ostrogothic interlude.
      • During his middle years he served in the court of the Ostrogothic kings of Italy, putting his literary talents to work compiling edicts and official letters and recording notable events.
      • Italy was itself contested territory, parts of which were ruled by Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Lombard, Frankish, Ottoman, or Byzantine overlords - among others - during the six centuries this study comprises.

Origin

From late Latin Ostrogothi (plural), from the Germanic base of east + late Latin Gothi 'Goths'.

 
 

Definition of Ostrogoth in US English:

Ostrogoth

nounˈɑstrəˌɡɑθˈästrəˌɡäTH
  • A member of the eastern branch of the Goths, who conquered Italy in the 5th–6th centuries AD.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This happened in Spain under the Visigoths and in Italy under the Ostrogoths, but both those kingdoms were swept away.
    • During the war that followed between Justinian and the Ostrogoths, the Slavs made repeated incursions into the provinces.
    • The Ostrogoths attacked the western empire via the eastern empire.
    • The Ostrogoths settled in Italy, the Franks in northern Gaul, the Burgundians in Provence, the Visigoths in southern Gaul and Spain, the Vandals in Africa and the western Mediterranean, and the Angles and Saxons in England.
    • These groups are collectively termed the Goths (and individually known as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, and Vandals) and were prominent among the so-called barbarians who destroyed the Western Roman Empire.

Origin

From late Latin Ostrogothi (plural), from the Germanic base of east + late Latin Gothi ‘Goths’.

 
 
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