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Latin
Etymology
Unclear. Possibly from Gaulish/Celtic *rait (“highland”),[1] or maybe connected with Reitia, a Venetic/Italic goddess; from Venetic 𐌓𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌀 (reitia), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-.[2][3] More at Raeti.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Raetī m pl (genitive Raetōrum); second declension
- A pre-Roman tribe of the Alps
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Raeti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Raeti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Zavaroni, Adolfo (2001): Le Iscrizioni Retiche ("Raetic Inscriptions")
- ^ Marcel Detienne, The writing of Orpheus: Greek myth in cultural context (Johns Hopkins, 2002