Parisii

English

Etymology

From Latin Parīsiī

Noun

Parisii pl (plural only)

1. A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Lutetia; Paris, the capital of France, is named after them.
2. A British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single reference by Ptolemy, and possibly connected with the more widely known Parisii of Gaul.

Latin

Etymology

From Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Proper noun

Parīsiī m pl (genitive Parīsiōrum); second declension

1. The Parisii, a Celtic tribe

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Parīsiī
Genitive	Parīsiōrum
Dative	Parīsiīs
Accusative	Parīsiōs
Ablative	Parīsiīs
Vocative	Parīsiī

Derived terms

• Parīsiacus

Descendants

• Old French: Paris
  • French: Paris
  • → Middle English: Parys
    • English: Paris
• Sicilian: Parisi

References

• “Parisii”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Parisii in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Parisi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly