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; cf. east) + Goth

Example Sentences

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Ostrogoth

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

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 Thomas Hodgkin

Bessas, the commandant, himself an Ostrogoth of Mœsia by birth, was a brave man, but coarse, selfish, and unfeeling.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

I must go to Syracuse and, on the pretext of buying provisions from your Ostrogoth Counts, inquire everything about these Vandals, of whom he is ignorant and yet ought to know.

From The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

Again, no record of that misery has been kept; but the hand of Genseric was heavier than that of Alaric, in proportion as the Vandal was cruel where the Ostrogoth was generous.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies