Cimbrian

plural Cimbrians

1. historicalA member of the Cimbri (tribe that invaded southern Europe in the 2nd century BCE)

   The Teutones settled in Germany and Gaul; the Cimbrians invaded Italy, where they were defeated by Marius.

   1861, Joseph Haydn, A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations, page 211

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   [W]e find mention of the Cimbrians in the Danish or Cimbrian peninsula[. ...] The Cimbrians and Teutons are described as tall and slightly built men [...]

   1907, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World, page 392

   I, however, putting these things aside or leaving them out for a short while, have found it better to begin with the migration of the Cimbrians from their home in their peninsula [Jutland].

   2002, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588-1648): Studies in the Latin Histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius, The Chronological Narrative of Pontanus's Rerum Danicarum historia, page 171 (translating Pontanus's Latin into English)

2. anthropologyA speaker of the modern Cimbrian language in Italy (see proper noun below)

1. A variety of Bavarian (High German) spoken in a number of language islands in northeastern Italy, very conservative in its structure, now highly endangered.