Teutonic
pronunciation
How to pronounce Teutonic in British English:
UK [tju:ˈtɒnɪk]
How to pronounce Teutonic in American English:
US [tuˈtɑnɪk]
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- Adjective:
- of or pertaining to the ancient Teutons or their languages
- of a more or less German nature; somewhat German
Word Origin
- Teutonic (adj.)
- 1610s, "of or pertaining to the Germanic languages and to peoples or tribes who speak or spoke them," from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutones, Teutoni, name of a tribe that inhabited coastal Germany near the mouth of the Elbe and devastated Gaul 113-101 B.C.E., probably via Celtic from Proto-Germanic *theudanoz, from PIE *teuta-, the common word for "people, tribe" (cognates: Lithuanian tauto, Oscan touto, Old Irish tuath, Gothic þiuda, Old English þeod "people, race, nation"). Used in English in anthropology to avoid the modern political association of German; but in this anthropological sense French uses germanique and German uses germanisch, because neither uses its form of German for the narrower national meaning (compare French allemand, for which see Alemanni; and German deutsch, under Dutch). In Finnish, Germany is Saksa "Land of the Saxons." The Teutonic Knights (founded c.1191) were a military order of German knights formed for service in the Holy Land, but who later crusaded in then-pagan Prussia and Lithuania. The Teutonic cross (1882) was the badge of the order.
Example
- 1. They were three teutonic tribes .
- 2. T the anglo-saxons brought their own teutonic religion to britain .
- 3. Otherwise teutonic rigidity will wreck the european project .
- 4. Football matches pitting english against german teams are inevitably depicted as a clash between anglo-saxon resolve and teutonic efficiency .
- 5. The teutonic knights are a german crusading order of knights committed to fighting infidels and pagans .