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Os⋅tro⋅goth

  [os-truh-goth]
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–noun
a member of the easterly division of the Goths, maintaining a monarchy in Italy, a.d. 493–555.
Compare Visigoth.

Origin:
1640–50; < LL Ostrogothī, Austrogotī (pl.) < Gmc, equiv. to *austro- eastwards (ON austr, OS, OHG ōstar, MD ooster, OE ēast(er)ra; cf. east ) + Goth

Related forms:
Os⋅tro⋅goth⋅ic, Os⋅tro⋅goth⋅i⋅an, adjective
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Os·tro·goth   (ŏs'trə-gŏth')   
n.  One of a tribe of eastern Goths that conquered and ruled Italy from A.D. 493 to 555.

[From Middle English Ostrogotes, Ostrogoths, from Late Latin Ostrogothī : ostro-, eastern (of Germanic origin; see aus- in Indo-European roots) + Gothī, Goths; see Goth.]
Os'tro·goth'ic adj.
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Word Origin & History

Ostrogoth 
1605, the "East Goths," who conquered Italy late 5c. and established, under Theodric, a kingdom there that lasted from 493 to 555 C.E., from L.L. Ostrogothæ, lit. "eastern Goths" from P.Gmc. *aust(a)r- "east" (for second element, see Goth, also Visigoth), but according to some this is a folk corruption of an earlier Austrogoti, from a Gmc. compound, the first element of which means "shining" or "splendid," from P.Gmc. *austr-, from PIE *ausr- (see aurora), which is also, via "sunrise," the root of the L. word for "east."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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