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Latin
Etymology
This term is given by Tacitus as what Germanic peoples call their war chants (quem barditum vocant). As such, it may be a Latinization of a Proto-Germanic word, for example, *barjaną (“to beat, strike”).
Noun
bardītus m (genitive bardītūs); fourth declension
- a war chant used by the early Germanic peoples
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “barditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “barditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers (Note: Elementary Lewis indicates second declension)
- barditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.