Iceni

English

Alternative forms

• Eceni

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈsiːnaɪ/

Noun

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.

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈkeː.niː/, [ɪˈkeːniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈt͡ʃe.ni/, [iˈt͡ʃɛːni]

Proper noun

Icēnī m pl (genitive Icēnōrum); second declension

1. Iceni

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Icēnī
Genitive	Icēnōrum
Dative	Icēnīs
Accusative	Icēnōs
Ablative	Icēnīs
Vocative	Icēnī

Derived terms

• Venta Icēnōrum

References

• “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.