Helvetii
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of Helvetii
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1890–95
Example Sentences
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When those formidable Helvetii marched out of their Alpine cantons to occupy Gallic lowlands in 58 BC, Caesar deployed geopolitics to defeat them -- seizing strategic terrain, controlling their grain supplies, and manipulating rival tribes.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2018
Helvetii, B.G. i, 2, 2. me dignor, Aen. i, 335.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
His first achievement was the defeat of the Helvetii, who, rising en masse, wished to abandon their sterile country, and gain by the sword a more fertile land.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
Where the river leaves the lake there was a bridge which the Helvetii had neglected to occupy.
From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony
The older men among the Helvetii had discouraged the project when it was first mooted, but they had yielded to eagerness and enthusiasm, and it had taken at last a practical form.
From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony
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