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Latin
Etymology
Gaulish tribe name, from *ande- + *cav- (“bond”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Andecāvī m pl (genitive Andecāvōrum); second declension
- the Andecavi (a Gallic tribe in the region of present-day Anjou)
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Andes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ou -gāvi Andecāvi ou -gāvi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 124.
- “Andecāuī” on page 128/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Taylor, Isaac (1896): Names and Their Histories: Alphabetically Arranged as a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature, p. 48