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

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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

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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

In Continental Germany, the ideal knight of the Saxons in the North and the Bavarians in the South was no native hero, but Theodoric the Ostrogoth.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers

Have they not dwelt in the shadow of mountains that have trembled beneath the tramp of Goth, Visigoth and Ostrogoth, till those shadows have become every-day shadows to them?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

Theodoric the Ostrogoth may rank with the greatest statesmen of the Empire, yet even Theodoric found his Arianism a fatal disadvantage.

From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

As I have just said, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, like almost all the great Teutonic swarm-leaders, like Alaric the Visigoth, like Gaiseric the Vandal, like Gundobad the Burgundian, was an Arian.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

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