OSTROGOTH


Meaning of OSTROGOTH in English

n. hist. a member of the Eastern branch of the Goths, who conquered Italy in the 5th-6th c. Ostrogothic adj.

[ LL Ostrogothi (pl.) f. Gmc austro- (unrecorded) east + LL Gothi Goths: see GOTH ]

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