Goth

Meaning

Noun

• A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.
• Uncivilized person, barbarian, vandal.
• Alternative of goth (member of gothic subculture).

Origin

• From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną. Compare Old Norse Goti ("Gotlander, Goth"), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.