Belgae

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine. === Noun === Belgae pl (plural only) (historical) A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC. ==== Translations ==== === References === Pokorny, Julius, "The pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland", Celtic, DIAS, 1960 (reprint 1983), p. 231. === Anagrams === Beagle, beagle, glebae == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *belgos (“swollen (with anger)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to bulge, swell”), thus meaning "People who swell (with fury/anger)." Also see Old English belgan and Dutch gebelgd. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɛɫ.ɡae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛl̠ʲ.d͡ʒe] === Proper noun === Belgae m pl (genitive Belgārum); first declension Belgae; a group of tribes of northern Gaul ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. Usually plural, but the singular "Belga" is found in Lucan's Bellum Civile (1.426). ==== Derived terms ==== belgicus === References === “Belgae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Belgae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Belgae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers