Dictionaries › Latin

Labeates

Pronunciation: [ɫa.beˈaː.teːs]

“Labeates” is a Latin word. Its meaning in English:

proper noun

  1. A tribe of Illyricum, whose chief town was Scodra

Etymology

borrowed from Ancient Greek Λαβεάται (Labeátai). Thought to be related to the modern Labëri (“land of lab”), derived from lëbozë (“horizon/sky”), from Proto-Albanian *labeita close to the name of the Illyrian tribe Labeatae, suggesting an archaic meaning of "small sky".

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “Labeates” there

More Latin words

About this dictionary

The Latin dictionary on Glottosphere has 42,428 entries with a page. Browse the Latin dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.