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Latin
Etymology
From Gaulish *Lingones, from Proto-Celtic *lengeti (“to jump”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lingonēs m pl (genitive Lingonum); third declension
- A Celtic tribe of Gallia Belgica, which dwelt near the sources of the Marne and Seine
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Lingones”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lingones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Lingones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN