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Cherusci

Cherusci · m

a German people on the south side of the Hartz Mountains

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Annales 20 · 2.25/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Chē^rusci — Lewis & Short

Chē^rusci, ōrum, m., = *xhrou=skoi. Strabo; *xerouskoi, Dio.; *xairouskoi/, Ptolem.; in a more restricted sense,

I a German people on the south side of the Hartz Mountains; but more freq. in an extended sense, the combined German tribes, which became distinguished by their war with the Romans, living on both sides of the Weser and Lippe, Caes. B. G. 6, 10; Vell. 2, 105; 2, 117 sqq.; Tac. G. 36 Rup.; id. A. 2, 46; 1, 56 sq.; 2, 9 sq.; 12, 28 et saep.; Flor. 4, 12, 24; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 452; id. B. Get. 420.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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