Ordovices

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Ordovīcēs. === Noun === Ordovices pl (plural only) (historical) An ancient tribe of Britannia, situated opposite the island of Anglesey. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *ordos (“hammer”) (Old Irish ord, Welsh gordd, Breton horzh) and *wiketi (“to fight”) (Old Irish fichid), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“fight, conquer”) (whence vincō). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔr.dɔˈwiː.keːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [or.doˈviː.t͡ʃes] === Proper noun === Ordovīcēs m pl (genitive Ordovīcum); third declension Ordovices (a tribe of Britannia) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Descendants ==== → English: Ordovices → Portuguese: ordovico → Spanish: ordovico === References === “Ordovices”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Ordovices”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Ordovices”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.