Cimbri
noun
a Germanic or Celtic people, supposed to have originated in Jutland, who invaded Gaul and northern Italy, and were destroyed by the Romans in 101 b.c.
Cimbric
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a word derived from
Cimbri.
Example Sentences
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Their relations to the population of the Cimbric Chersonese will form the subject of the next chapter.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
But the spell of the Cimbric victories was potent still, and the captains replied that they would not give up Marius.
From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by A.H. Beesley
On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamor, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arabic baraka also signifies to rain violently; and from this we get the Saxon rœgn, to rain, Dutch regen, to rain, Cimbric rœkia, rain, Welsh rheg, rain.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
The Cattegat is divided from the Baltic by the Danish islands, between the east coast of the Cimbric peninsula in the neighbourhood of the German frontier and south-western Sweden.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
