Get to know Alemanni better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Alemanni meaning
- A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
- Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
Using Alemanni
- The main meaning on this page is: A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century. | Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
- In the example corpus, alemanni often appears in combinations such as: the alemanni, alemanni and.
Context around Alemanni
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alemanni
- In this selection, "alemanni" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, name, mainly, capitulation, yet and vorarlberg stand out and add context to how "alemanni" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 366 the alemanni yet again and alemanni and franks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alemanni" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alemanni
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He forced the Alemanni capitulation to Frankish suzerainty and did not appoint a successor to Lantfrid. (16 words)
However, it is likely that it was mainly Alemanni and Juthungi in especially in the south. (16 words)
The Alemanni were routed, forced back into Germany, and did not threaten Roman territory for many years afterwards. (18 words)
As winter was upon them, they reoccupied a "fortification which was founded on the soil of the Alemanni that Trajan wished to be called with his own name". munimentum quod in Alamannorum solo conditum Traianus suo nomine voluit appellari. (39 words)
In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns. (35 words)
Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened. (30 words)
Example sentences (14)
In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.
Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened.
Alemanni and Franks lived there and by 794 Charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod, at which Franconofurd (-furt -vurd) was first mentioned.
As winter was upon them, they reoccupied a "fortification which was founded on the soil of the Alemanni that Trajan wished to be called with his own name". munimentum quod in Alamannorum solo conditum Traianus suo nomine voluit appellari.
By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army (the "war bands").
He forced the Alemanni capitulation to Frankish suzerainty and did not appoint a successor to Lantfrid.
However, it is likely that it was mainly Alemanni and Juthungi in especially in the south.
On January 2, 366, the Alemanni yet again crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers, to invade the Gallic provinces, this time being defeated by Valentinian (see Battle of Solicinium ).
The Alemanni were routed, forced back into Germany, and did not threaten Roman territory for many years afterwards.
The land contained the remnant of many prior civilisations, but the Bavarians predominated, except in the Lake Constance area to the west occupied by the Alemanni ( Vorarlberg ).
These areas had been dominated and settled by the Burgundians and the Alemanni before being removed and resettled much further south around Switzerland.
This mutually antagonistic relationship is perhaps the reason why the Roman writers persisted in calling the Alemanni barbari, "savages".
Unlike the later Christianization of the Saxons and of the Slavs, the Alemanni seem to have adopted Christianity gradually, and voluntarily, spread in emulation of the Merovingian elite.
Whether or not the Alemanni had been previously neutral, they were certainly further influenced by Caracalla to become thereafter notoriously implacable enemies of Rome.
Common combinations with alemanni
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: