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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κελτοί (Keltoí), Κέλται (Kéltai), Herodotus’ word for the Gauls, from Proto-Celtic *kel-to, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to strike, beat”). Compare Gaulish theonym *Su-cellus (“good striker”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Celtae m pl (genitive Celtārum); first declension
- the Celts (inhabitants of Gaul)
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kellāko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 199: “*kellāko- 'fight, war'”.
Further reading
- “Celtae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Celtae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.