Iceni
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English
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Noun
Iceni pl (plural only)
- (historical) A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *uxī (“ox”), from *uxsū, from Proto-Celtic *uksōn, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn. Or, from a Celtic source representing modern Welsh echen (“lineage, stock, tribe”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“side, flank, breast”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /iˈkeː.niː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈt͡ʃe.ni/,
Proper noun
Icēnī m pl (genitive Icēnōrum); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Icēnī |
| genitive | Icēnōrum |
| dative | Icēnīs |
| accusative | Icēnōs |
| ablative | Icēnīs |
| vocative | Icēnī |
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References
- “Iceni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Iceni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Iceni”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- A Dictionary of the Welsh Language. University of Wales. 2017.
- ^ Transactions of the Philological Society. (1867). United Kingdom: Blackwell Publ., p. 282