The corpus record — Latin

Vandalii

Vandalii · m

the Vandals

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k

What it meant

Vandălĭi — Lewis & Short

Vandălĭi or Vandĭli or Vandĭlĭi, ōrum, m.,

I the Vandals, a people in the northern part of Germany in the time of Tacitus, Tac. G. 2 (Vandalii, Halm; Vandilii, Ritter); Plin. 4, 14, 28, § 99 (Vandili, Jan. and Sillig). —Sing.: Vandalus, a Vandal, Sid. Carm. 2, 369.—Hence,

A Vandălus, a, um, adj., Vandal: hostis, Sid. Carm. 2, 348.—

B Vandălĭcus, i, m., a surname of Justinian, as conqueror of the Vandals, Jornand. R. Get. fin.

In the wild

Vandilios Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 2.4

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.