Danubian

English

Etymology

From Danube +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Danubian (comparative more Danubian, superlative most Danubian)

1. Pertaining to, or bordering on, the Danube river in Europe.

Synonyms

• Danubic (less common)

Derived terms

• Danubian corridor
• Transdanubian

 

Translations

pertaining to the Danube

• Catalan: danubià, danubiana f
• French: danubien (fr) m, danubienne (fr) f
• German: donauisch
• Italian: danubiano (it) m, danubiana f
• Macedonian: дунавски (dunavski)
• Portuguese: danubiano m, danúbico, danubiana f
• Romanian: danubian (ro) m or n, danubiană f
• Russian: дуна́йский (ru) (dunájskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дунавски

  Latin: dunavski (sh)

• Spanish: danubiano (es)

Noun

Danubian (plural Danubians)

1. (historical) A member of one of the early human cultures which were centred in the Danube basin, such as the Linear Pottery culture or the Vučedol culture.
   • 2009, Walter Goffart, Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire, page 87:

     After decades of quiescence, mid-Danubians took the war path as the 400s began.

2. Synonym of Sebastopol (“type of goose”)