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English
Noun
Budini pl (plural only)
- An ancient people who lived in Scythia, known only from a description by Herodotus, and conjectured to have been of either proto-Slavic or Finno-Ugric origin.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουδῖνοι (Boudînoi).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Būdīnī m pl (genitive Būdīnōrum); second declension
- A tribe of Scythia
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Budini”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Budini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Budini in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.