Cimbrian
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Cimbrian (plural Cimbrians)
- (countable) A member of a Germanic people who live in parts of northeast Italy.
- (countable, historical) A member of the Cimbri, especially when they are considered to have been a Germanic people and to originate from Jutland (the "Cimbrian peninsula").
- 1861, Joseph Haydn, A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations, page 211:
- The Teutones settled in Germany and Gaul; the Cimbrians invaded Italy, where they were defeated by Marius.
- 1907, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World, page 392:
- e find mention of the Cimbrians in the Danish or Cimbrian peninsula[. ...] The Cimbrians and Teutons are described as tall and slightly built men [...]
- 2002, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588-1648): Studies in the Latin Histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius (→ISBN), The Chronological Narrative of Pontanus's Rerum Danicarum historia, page 171 (translating Pontanus's Latin into English):
- I, however, putting these things aside or leaving them out for a short while, have found it better to begin with the migration of the Cimbrians from their home in their peninsula .
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Cimbrian
- (uncountable) The Bavarian Germanic language of these people, which is a variety of German.
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