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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ostrogoth \Os"tro*goth\, prop. n. [L. Ostrogothi, pl. See East, and Goth.] One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, one of the "East Goths," who conquered Italy late 5c. and established, under Theodric, a kingdom there that lasted from 493 to 555 C.E., from Late Latin Ostrogothæ, from Germanic, literally "eastern Goths" from Proto-Germanic *aust(a)r- "east" (see east; for second element, see Goth; also see Visigoth), but according to Klein this is a folk corruption of an earlier Austrogoti, from a Germanic compound, the first element of which means "shining" or "splendid," from Proto-Germanic *austr-, from PIE *ausr- (see aurora), which is also, via "sunrise," the root of the Latin word for "east."
Wikipedia
Ostrogoth is a Belgian heavy metal band, formed in 1980 in Ghent.
The group were influenced by the new wave of British heavy metal and other successful European metal bands such as Scorpions and Accept. After an EP and two albums, Ecstasy and Danger and Too Hot, lack of a commercial success resulted in a major line-up change for 1987's Feelings of Fury, following which the band disbanded.
Usage examples of "ostrogoth".
There can be little doubt that the Goths who were minded to revolt from the son of Triarius and who were not to be received into favour by the Emperor, were Ostrogoths, still dimly conscious of the old tie which bound them to the glorious house of Amala, and more than half disposed to forsake the service of their squinting upstart chief in order to follow the banners of the young hero, son of Theudemir.
The Vandals and the Ostrogoths persevered in the profession of Arianism till the final ruin of the kingdoms which they had founded in Africa and Italy.
Alatheus, the king, or general, of the Ostrogoths, perished with his bravest troops, either by the sword of the Romans, or in the waves of the Danube.
Baltings, who later called themselves Visigoths, the Amalings, who became Ostrogoths, and the Gepids, who are still known only as Gepids.
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.
The corpses of Rugii and other fallen pagans, like those of Arian Ostrogoths and Gepids, were buried with their heads to the west.
At each level of civil administration, Theodoric installed both a Roman judex and an Ostrogoth marshal, coequal in authority.
She could locate Marrakesh on the globe and deliver an oral history of both the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths that would have made the Romans weep with envy.
Ostrogoths were distinguished by their numbers, their bravery, and the personal merits of their chiefs.
Nowadays every Germanic inhabitant of the empire, west or east, thinks of himself, not as an Ostrogoth or a Suevian or a Gepid or whatever, but as a Roman citizen.
Soviet armored spearheads, reversed his direction east of Jüterbog, abandoned the route of the Ostrogoths, and hurried toward the Westenemy: over the ruins of the inner city, around the government quarter, close call on the Alexander-platz, guided through the Tiergarten by two bitches in heat, and damn near captured near the Zoological Gardens air raid shelter, where gigantic mousetraps were waiting for him, but he seven times circumambulated the Victory Column, shot down the Siegesallee, counseled by dog instinct, that wise old saw, joined a gang of civilian moving men, who were moving theater accessories from the exhibition pavilion by the radio tower to Nikolassee.
There are Byzantines who want to pick the carcass before the Ostrogoths get there.
The province of Marseilles, as far as the Durance, was afterwards ceded to the Ostrogoths.
The victories of the great Hermanric, ^140 king of the Ostrogoths, and the most noble of the race of the Amali, have been compared, by the enthusiasm of his countrymen, to the exploits of Alexander.
During his ripe years he stood by the side of Theodoric, minister in prime trust, doubtless helping to shape that wise and benevolent policy which made the reign of the Ostrogoth a time of rest and hope for the Italian people—.