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n. (plural of gepid English)
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The Gepids were an East Germanic tribe. They were closely related to, or a subdivision of, the Goths.
They are first recorded in 6th-century historiography as having been allied with the Goths in the invasion of Dacia in c. 260. In the 4th century, they were incorporated into the Hunnic Empire. Under their leader Ardaric, the Gepids united with other Germanic tribes and defeated the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454. The Gepids then founded a kingdom centered on Sirmium, known as Gepidia, which was defeated by the Lombards a century later. Remnants of the Gepids were conquered by the Avars later in the 6th century.
Jordanes reports that their name is from gepanta, an insult meaning "sluggish, stolid" (pigra). An Old English form of their name is recorded in Widsith, as , alongside the name of the Wends.
Usage examples of "gepids".
Baltings, who later called themselves Visigoths, the Amalings, who became Ostrogoths, and the Gepids, who are still known only as Gepids.
With commendable expedition, efficiency and gusto, they stopped those Gepids who attacked on the north bank, then beat them back.
Although our Ostrogoths were handicapped by waterlogged armor and numbed limbs, they so heavily outnumbered the Gepids that they likewise fought off their assailants, then threw them backward.
And when the surviving Gepids were rounded up, disarmed and taken prisoner, we learned why those kinsmen of ours had ambushed us.
The corpses of Rugii and other fallen pagans, like those of Arian Ostrogoths and Gepids, were buried with their heads to the west.
Now it seemed the Gepids were again brashly testing our mettle, and not far away from the first place they had tried it.
Sirmium smelled, I personally might have been inclined to let the Gepids keep it, but of course that was out of the question.
For one thing, the Gepids there could put a permanent squeeze on the river traffic.
That may have been true, because our troops very easily flushed the Gepids out of Sirmium, and then chased them some distance eastward before turning around to march home to Italia.
Moreover, he was himself both wealthy and generous, and he brought with him a huge and motley host of barbarians, Huns, Lombards, Gepids, Herulians, all eager to serve under the free-handed Chamberlain, and to be enriched by him with the spoil of Italy.