Quadi
/ˈkweɪdi/ /ˈkwɑːdi/noun
Treated as plural. An ancient Germanic people of the Suevian group who were inhabiting Moravia by the beginning of the 1st cent. a.d.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in John Trevisa (c1342–?1402), translator. From classical Latin Quādī (plural), the name of an ancient Germanic people of the Suevian group who were inhabiting Moravia by the beginning of the 1st cent. a.d. Compare Hellenistic Greek Κούαδοι, plural.
- plate rack
- plate rail
- plate railway
- plateresque
- Plate, River
- plate roll
- plate room
- plate shears
- plate ship
- plate-shy
- plates of meat
- plate-tectonicist
- plate tectonics
- plate tracery
- plateway
- plate wheel
- plate-worker
- plat-eye
- platform
- spiritually
- spiritualness
- spirituous
- spiritus
- spiritus rector
- spiro-