"Belgae" meaning in All languages combined

See Belgae on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|Belgae}} Latin Belgae Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} Belgae pl (plural only)
  1. (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. Wikipedia link: Belgae Tags: historical, plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Tribes Translations (group of tribes): belgit [plural] (Finnish)

Proper name [Latin]

IPA: /ˈbel.ɡae̯/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈbɛɫ̪ɡäe̯] [Classical-Latin], /ˈbel.d͡ʒe/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈbɛl̠ʲd͡ʒe] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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. Etymology templates: {{der|la|cel-pro|*belgos|t=swollen (with anger)}} Proto-Celtic *belgos (“swollen (with anger)”), {{der|la|ine-pro|*bʰelǵʰ-||to bulge, swell}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to bulge, swell”), {{cog|ang|belgan}} Old English belgan, {{cog|nl|gebelgd}} Dutch gebelgd Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Belgae<1>|g=m}} Belgae m pl (genitive Belgārum); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Belga<1.both>|footnote=Usually plural, but the singular "Belga" is found in Lucan's Bellum Civile (1.426).}} Forms: Belgārum [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Belga [nominative, singular], Belgae [nominative, plural], Belgae [genitive, singular], Belgārum [genitive, plural], Belgae [dative, singular], Belgīs [dative, plural], Belgam [accusative, singular], Belgās [accusative, plural], Belgā [ablative, singular], Belgīs [ablative, plural], Belga [singular, vocative], Belgae [plural, vocative]
  1. Belgae; a group of tribes of northern Gaul Tags: declension-1, masculine, plural Categories (topical): Ethnonyms, Tribes Derived forms: belgicus

Inflected forms

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