visigoth

专有名词

A noun referring to a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and established a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France.

• 🇨🇳名词，指西哥特人，即哥特人的一支（西方分支），曾洗劫罗马并于公元5至8世纪在高卢南部和伊比利亚半岛建立王国。

1. Historical Germanic tribe C1 formal

   A member of the western branch of the Goths, an East Germanic people, who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and later established a kingdom in Gaul and Hispania.

   • The Visigoths famously sacked Rome in 410 AD under their king Alaric.
   • After leaving Italy, the Visigoths settled in southern Gaul and later founded a powerful kingdom in Spain.
   • The Visigothic kingdom in Hispania lasted until the early 8th century when it was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate.

   🇨🇳西哥特人

• visigoths plural form
• visigoths' possessive plural form
• visigoth's possessive singular form