a person who speaks a Celtic language
a member of an Indo-European people who in pre-Roman times inhabited Britain, Gaul, Spain, and other parts of W and central Europe
1705–15; < Late Latin *celtis chisel, found only in the ablative case celte (Vulgate, Job XIX, 24)
1695–1705; < Latin Celtae (plural); in Greek Keltoí (plural)
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It is not just the adults who have had an incredible time, but Fflur, 12 and Celt, 10, from Cardigan, Ceredigion, who have come with their parents and are staying in an apartment.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
Celt is a smart, convincing novelist, and her ambitious tweaks of the concept are fascinating and fun to grapple with.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
This placed Celtic languages far from the Celt homelands in the middle of Europe at a very, very early date.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016
Many of the rest were religious periodicals, but the list includes the American Celt, the Poultry Record, Whipple’s Daily Fire Reporter and Scholars’ Quarterly.
From Washington Times • May 30, 2014
Intermarriage was frequent, not only between Dane and Angle, but between Celt and Norseman as well.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Larson, Laurence Marcellus
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