Visigoth


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Vis·i·goth

 (vĭz′ĭ-gŏth′)
n.
A member of the western Goths that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century ad and settled in France and Spain, establishing a monarchy that lasted until the early eighth century.

[Late Latin Visigothī, the Visigoths; see wes-pero- in Indo-European roots.]

Vis′i·goth′ic adj.
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Visigoth

(ˈvɪzɪˌɡɒθ)
n
1. (Peoples) a member of the western group of the Goths, who were driven into the Balkans in the late 4th century ad. Moving on, they sacked Rome (410) and established a kingdom in present-day Spain and S France that lasted until 711
2. (Historical Terms) a member of the western group of the Goths, who were driven into the Balkans in the late 4th century ad. Moving on, they sacked Rome (410) and established a kingdom in present-day Spain and S France that lasted until 711
[C17: from Late Latin Visigothī (pl), of Germanic origin, visi- perhaps meaning: west]
ˌVisiˈgothic adj
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Vis•i•goth

(ˈvɪz ɪˌgɒθ)

n.
a member of the western division of the Goths, who, after sacking Rome in a.d. 410, formed a kingdom in SW Europe, maintaining it in S Gaul until 507 and in Spain until 711.
[1605–15; < Late Latin Visigothī (pl.) < Germanic, =*wisi- (c. west) + goth- Goth]
Vis`i•goth′ic, adj.
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Noun1.Visigoth - a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
Goth - one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries
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Translations

Visigoth

[ˈvɪzɪgɒθ] Nvisigodo/a m/f
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Visigoth

nWestgote m
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Visigoth

[ˈvɪzɪˌgɒθ] nVisigoto
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Among their topics are east and west from a Visigoth perspective: how and why Frankish brides were negotiated in the late sixth century, private records of official diplomacy: the Franco-Byzantine letters in the Austrasian Epistolar Collection, Mediterranean homesick blues: human trafficking in the Merovingian leges, the portrayal of Emperor Tiberius II in Gregory of Tours, and when contemporary history is caught up by the immediate present: Fredegar's proleptic depiction of Emperor Constans II.
Historians say the (https://about-history.com/the-brutal-history-of-the-visigoth-kingdom-of-spain/) Visigoth era was overshadowed by Roman rule .
They were put on offer as garden ornaments - but Mr X recognised them as possible Visigoth religious artworks,' Brand said.
The text's description that the largely outnumbered Muslim forces defeated the Visigoth's 100,000-man army reveals divine favor.
In contrast, the Visigoth diminishes the value of language, approaching words as if they held equal value with an interchangeability that merely espouses the cliche as a highest aspiration.
Qurtuba ae1/4" earlier with the Romans, Byzantine and Visigoth ae1/4" underwent such an urban and cultural change with the Umayyads that it became one of the most important cities in the world.
Among the topics are defining the divine in Achaemenid Persian kingship, divinity and the rule of law in Alexander the Great, royal images in medieval English law books, royalty reflected in the Chronicles of Froissart, the dynamics of Visigoth monarchy, and architecture and representations of kingship during the reign of Safavid Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629).
Yet where Venice has developed mechanisms, commercial as well as behavioral, whereby one can reside, as I have, on the Grand Canal the year round without seeing a single tourist at spitting distance, Florence long ago caved in to the Visigoth onslaught.
The lead Visigoth, named Garth, in the commercials speaks "with what could be called a Continental accent," she adds, "representing the full extent of their Western European roots before their emigration to the United States to take on their current role in the Capital One advertising."
Oviedo, indisputably the fictional Vetusta, was indeed the capital, "noble y leal," of the reduced Visigoth Empire when Muslims held the rest of the peninsula.