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Parisii

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin Parīsiī.

Noun

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Parisii pl (plural only)

  1. A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Lutetia; Paris, the capital of France, is named after them.
  2. A British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single reference by Ptolemy, and possibly connected with the more widely known Parisii of Gaul.

Latin

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Etymology

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From Transalpine Gaulish *parios (cauldron), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Proper noun

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Parīsiī m pl (genitive Parīsiōrum); second declension

  1. The Parisii, a Celtic tribe

Declension

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Second-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative Parīsiī
genitive Parīsiōrum
dative Parīsiīs
accusative Parīsiōs
ablative Parīsiīs
vocative Parīsiī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Old French: Paris
  • Sicilian: Parisi

References

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  • Parisii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Parisii in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Parisi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly