Teutonic
Origin of Teutonic
Examples from the Web for teutonic
Contemporary Examples
Yet by equating their engineering with Teutonic rigor the Germans have created the impression of an exclusive proprietary quality.
The Germans knew they had a special sea creature in their Teutonic grip.
The Amazing Tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus: Germany’s World Cup SoothsayerEmily Shire
July 12, 2014
He conducted a 24-year-long war against Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, and the Teutonic Knights, and lost.
It was more about the way art looked: it should be as naturalistic as possible, and be made by Teutonic or Scandinavian artists.
There's no Teutonic engineering magic to this impressive record.
Historical Examples
This was said in a guttural voice, the accent being quite Teutonic.
MelomaniacsJames Huneker
It is said to be a language of Latin roots with a Teutonic grammar.
A Short History of SpainMary Platt Parmele
"Awful," echoed Schomberg, in a Teutonic throaty tone of despair.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
Observe the Teutonic sense of proportion and nice forgiving temper.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
There was positively a smile in his noble Teutonic beard, the first smile for weeks.
VictoryJoseph Conrad
Teutonic
- characteristic of or relating to the German peopleTeutonic thoroughness
- of or relating to the ancient Teutons
- (not used in linguistics) of or relating to the Germanic languages
- an obsolete name for Germanic
Word Origin and History for teutonic
Teutonic
adj.
c.1600, "of or pertaining to the Germanic languages and to peoples or tribes who speak or spoke them," from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutones, name of a tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul 113-101 B.C.E., probably from a Proto-Germanic word related to Old High German diot "people" (see Dutch), from *teuta, the common PIE word for "people" (cf. Lithuanian tauto, Oscan touto, Old Irish tuath, Gothic þiuda, Old English þeod).
Used in English in anthropology to avoid the modern political association of German; but in this anthropoligical sense French uses germanique and German uses germanisch, because neither uses its form of German for the narrower national meaning (cf. French allemand, see Alemanni; and German deutsch). In Finnish, Germany is Saksa "Land of the Saxons."
The Teutonic Knights (founded c.1191) were a military order of German knights formed for service in the Holy Land, but who later crusaded in then-pagan Prussia and Lithuania. The Teutonic cross (1882) was the badge of the order. Teuton "a German" is attested from 1833.