The corpus record — Latin

Gallaeci

Gallaeci · m

a people in western

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What it meant

Gallaeci — Lewis & Short

Gallaeci (also Callaeci and Cal-laïci), ōrum, m., = *kallaikoi/ Strab.,

I a people in western Hispania Tarraconensis, now Galicia and part of Portugal, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 28.—

II Derivv.

A Gallae-cus (also Gallaïcus and Callaïcus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Gallaeci, (Call-), Gallœcian (Call-): Gallaica gens, Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166: Callaicum aurum, Mart. 4, 39, 7: Gallaica gemma, Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 163: Gallaecus, a surname of A. Brutus, from his victory over the Gallaeci, Vell. 2, 5.—

B Gallaecia (Call-), ae, f., the country of the Gallaeci, Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 112; Flor. 2, 17, 5.

Where it came from

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