Iceni

• Eceni

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈsiːnaɪ/

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Iceni pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.

Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *uxī (“ox”), from *uxsū, from Proto-Celtic *uksōn, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn. Or, from a Celtic source representing modern Welsh echen (“lineage, stock, tribe”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“side, flank, breast”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪˈkeː.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈt͡ʃɛː.ni]

Icēnī m pl (genitive Icēnōrum); second declension

1. Iceni

Second-declension noun, plural only.

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• “Iceni”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Iceni”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Iceni”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• A Dictionary of the Welsh Language. University of Wales. 2017.