Alemanni Definition

ălə-mănī
noun
A group of Germanic tribes that settled in Alsace and nearby areas during the fourth century ad and were defeated by the Franks in 496.
American Heritage
The Germanic tribes that invaded and settled in Alsace and parts of Switzerland in the early 5th cent. a.d.: they were conquered by Clovis in a.d. 496
Webster's New World

Origin of Alemanni

  • Latin Alemannī of Germanic origin man-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Alemanni Sentence Examples

  • The custom, indeed, so far from dying out, was adopted by the barbarian conquerors and spread among the Christian Goths in Spain, Franks in Gaul, Alemanni in Germany, and Anglo-Saxons in Britain.

  • The inhabitants of Baden are of various origin - those to the north of the Murg being descended from the Alemanni and those to the south from the Franks, while the Swabian plateau derives its name and its population from another race.

  • He had distinguished himself as a general by victories over the Franks and Alemanni, and six months after the deposition of Avitus he was declared emperor by the regent Ricimer.

  • Thus, when the Anglo-Saxon, Winfrid, surnamed Boniface, appeared in the kingdom of the Franks as papal legate in 723, to romanize the existing church of the time, neither the Franks, the Thuringians, the Alemanni nor the Bavarians could be considered as pagans.

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