Goth

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal.
3. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of goth (“member of gothic subculture; or the subculture itself”).

Adj

Alternative form of goth.

Name

A surname

Synonyms

barbarian

peasant

tyke

tike

boor

churl

Gothicist

Hun

beast

loyalist

Gothic

Translations

Gote

godo

Goth

got

godo

Gotin

Goot

Γότθος

goda

goto

gótico

brute

talòs

bâtard

barbare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɒθ/

Etymology

Cognate with Old Norse: Goti

In summary

From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.