Helvetii

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Helvetii, from a Celtic name. First element from Proto-Celtic *ɸelus (“many”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁us (“many”); second element said to be from Celtic root *ɸeitu (“grassland, terrain”), which shares an origin with Old Irish íath (“grassland, territory”). === Proper noun === Helvetii pl (historical) A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland. ==== Translations ==== === References === Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003), pp. 162 and 168. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɛɫˈweː.ti.iː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [elˈvɛt.t͡si.i] === Proper noun === Helvētiī m pl (genitive Helvētiōrum); second declension A Gallic tribe of ancient Gaul ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, plural only. === Adjective === Helvētiī inflection of Helvētius: nominative/vocative masculine plural genitive masculine/neuter singular === References === “Helvetii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press