Definitions for Helvetii

Helvetii Hel·ve·ti·i

Spelling: [hel-vee-shee-ahy]
IPA: /hɛlˈvi ʃiˌaɪ/

Helvetii is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in Helvetii (eehiiltv).

Definitions for Helvetii

plural noun

  1. the ancient Celtic inhabitants of Helvetia in the time of Julius Caesar.

Origin of Helvetii

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1890-95

Examples for Helvetii

The bank being of small elevation, the Helvetii might have landed there.

His integrity had been seen throughout his whole life, his good fortune in the war with the Helvetii.

The Ambrones were a tribe of the Helvetii, and more than once joined with the Cimbri.

The Helvetii were defeated with great slaughter, and the remnant compelled to return to their former homes.

During the civil wars and for some time after the death of Caesar little is heard of the Helvetii.

The Helvetii persisted, nevertheless, in their project of emigration.

The remotest town of the Allobroges, on the side of the Helvetii, was Geneva.

Cæsar mustered his soldiers and marched against the Helvetii, meeting them at a place called Bibracte.

These were the Helvetii, whose emigration is mentioned in Cæs.

Among the Gauls the Helvetii surpass the rest in valour, as they constantly contend in battle with the Germans.

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