Redones

English

Alternative forms

• Rhedones, Riedones

Noun

Redones pl (plural only)

1. (historical) A Gallic tribe dwelling in the eastern part of the Brittany peninsula during the Iron Age and subsequent Roman conquest of Gaul.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Rhēdonēs

Etymology

Also seen as Ancient Greek Ῥήδονες (Rhḗdones), Ῥηΐδονες (Rhēḯdones); the name means "those who use chariots" or "those who ride well," from Gaulish *reda (“chariot”), from Proto-Celtic *rēdo- (“to ride; riding, chariot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)reydʰ- (“to ride”). Cognate with modern Welsh gorwydd.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.do.neːs/, [ˈreːd̪ɔneːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.do.nes/, [ˈrɛːd̪ones]

Proper noun

Rēdonēs m pl (genitive Rēdonum); third declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Condate

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Rēdonēs
Genitive	Rēdonum
Dative	Rēdonibus
Accusative	Rēdonēs
Ablative	Rēdonibus
Vocative	Rēdonēs

References

• Redones in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Redones”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Ranko Matasović - Toward a relative chronology of the earliest Baltic and Slavic sound changes, University of Zagreb, 2005
• Linguistically Celtic ethnonyms: towards a classification: EN Celtic and Other Languages in Ancient Europe