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

An Ostrogoth, the follower of Theodoric, stepped into the position of a slain Scyrian or Turcilingian, the follower of Odovacar, and the Italian owner suffered no further detriment.

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

Greek, Roman, Ostrogoth and Frank, Italians and Austrians, have all ruled here.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

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

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