Etymograph

English

Teutonic

Teutonic comes from Latin Teutonēs.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETeutonēs
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CETeutonicus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1886Teutonic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CETeutonēs
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CETeutonicus
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1886Teutonic

Earliest quotation: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima: “He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel…”

Formed from Teuton + -ic

Latin Teutonēs ‘the Teutons’

English Teuton

The story

1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- ‘to be strong’

butter, tumor, tomb, tumour, soma, truffle, tumultuous, tuff, trifle, tyrosine, tumult, tuber, turgid, tufa, 43 more

through Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ ‘people, tribe’

madrasa, 2 more

Today it means

adj Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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