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Gepid
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English
Etymology
From en la Gepidae.
Noun
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s Gepidae
en historical A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.
V A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general.
en History of the Langobards 42 Diaconus Paulus la-eme William Dudley Foulke 1906 The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee.
en Rome's Fall and After 178 Walter Goffart 1989 Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity.
Derived terms
en Gepidic
Anagrams
en degip pidge
en Germanic tribes