Vandalus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wandilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ-eh₂-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).

Proper noun

Vandalus m (genitive Vandalī); second declension

1. a Vandal

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Vandalus	Vandalī
genitive	Vandalī	Vandalōrum
dative	Vandalō	Vandalīs
accusative	Vandalum	Vandalōs
ablative	Vandalō	Vandalīs
vocative	Vandale	Vandalī

Derived terms

• Vandalītia

Descendants

• French: vandale
• Italian: vandalo
• Galician: vándalo
• Portuguese: vândalo
• Spanish: vándalo

References

• “Vandalii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press