Visigoth

American  

[viz-i-goth] / ˈvɪz ɪˌgɒθ /

noun

1. a member of the westerly division of the Goths, which formed a monarchy about a.d. 418, maintaining it in southern France until 507 and in Spain until 711.

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Visigoth British  

/ ˈvɪzɪˌɡɒθ /

noun

1. a member of the western group of the Goths, who were driven into the Balkans in the late 4th century _ad . Moving on, they sacked Rome (410) and established a kingdom in present-day Spain and S France that lasted until 711

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Other Word Forms

• Visigothic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Visigoth

1605–15; < Late Latin Visigothī (plural) < Germanic, equivalent to unattested wisi- (cognate with west ) + goth- Goth ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

By the early 400s, the Visigoth leader Alaric had negotiated various agreements with the Roman government to settle his people in Roman territory.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Expedition Unknown Host Josh Gates heads to Italy in search of the tomb of a Visigoth king in this new installment.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2017

“He’d go into long diatribes about the Visigoth invasion and the Peloponnesian Wars,” another colleague said.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2017

They needed something, anything, when Wade Phillips unleashed the Visigoth hordes in the AFC Championship Game.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016

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