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ostrogoth

Noun

Os=tro=goth

WORDNET DICTIONARY

ostrogoth(n = noun.person) - a member of the eastern group of Goths who created a kingdom in northern Italy around 500 AD;

ostrogoth, prop. n. [L. Ostrogothi, pl. See East, and Goth.].

One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth. [1913 Webster]

ostrogoth, n. hist. a member of the Eastern branch of the Goths, who conquered Italy in the 5th-6th c.

Derivative

Ostrogothic adj.

Etymology

LL Ostrogothi (pl.) f. Gmc austro- (unrecorded) east + LL Gothi Goths: see GOTH

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