Etymology

Ostrogoth

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Today it means: Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Visigoths being the other), which invaded Italy in the sixth century. Full definition →

Late Latin Ostrogothus ← Proto-Germanic *austrą ← Ancient Greek Γότθος
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The story

  1. Gothic · derived from*𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromΓότθος
  3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*austrą
  4. Late Latin · borrowed fromOstrogothus
  5. English todayOstrogoth

Borrowed from Late Latin Ostrogothus, from Proto-Germanic *austrą ("east") and *gutô, via Ancient Greek Γότθος (Gótthos) from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*austrą all →

east

Gothic*𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 all →

gothicgoth

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.