Atrebates

== English == === Noun === Atrebates pl (plural only) (historical) A Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region. == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *adtrebates (“inhabitants”), from *attrebā, from *trebā (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”). Loaned through French into English as artesian. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈtrɛ.ba.teːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈtrɛː.ba.tes] === Proper noun === Atrebatēs m pl (genitive Atrebatum); third declension A tribe of Gallia Belgica, situated between the rivers Somme and Scheldt ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Derived terms ==== Atrebaticus === Noun === Atrebatēs m pl nominative plural of Atrebās === References === “Atrebates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Atrebates”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Atrebates”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.