Ostrogoth

American  

[os-truh-goth] / ˈɒs trəˌgɒθ /

noun

1. a member of the easterly division of the Goths, maintaining a monarchy in Italy, a.d. 493–555.

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Ostrogoth British  

/ ˈɒstrəˌɡɒθ /

noun

1. a member of the eastern group of the Goths, who formed a kingdom in Italy from 493 to 552

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Other Word Forms

• Ostrogothian adjective
• Ostrogothic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Ostrogoth

1640–50; < Late Latin Ostrogothī, Austrogotī (plural) < Germanic, equivalent to *austro- eastwards ( Old Norse austr, Old Saxon, Old High German ōstar, Middle Dutch ooster, Old English ēast ( er ) ra; east ) + Goth

Example Sentences

Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric the Ostrogoth pronounced Solingen's swords worthy of Vulcan's own forge.

From Time Magazine Archive

You credulous fools forgot that I am an Ostrogoth; but I never did.

From The Scarlet Banner by Dahn, Felix

And one thing which makes us accept the statements of these historians with unquestioning belief is that they have no motive for the praises which they so freely Page 128 bestow on the great Ostrogoth.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Ostrogoth, os′trō-goth, n. an eastern Goth: one of the tribe of east Goths who established their power in Italy in 493, and were overthrown in 555.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The favour shown by the Ostrogoth sovereign to Cassiodorus, a staunch Catholic, yet senator, consul, patrician, quaestor, and praetorian praefect, is in itself an illustration of the absence of bitter Arian feeling.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden