BRITTANIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brittanic mean? 

• BRITTANIC (noun)
  The noun BRITTANIC has 1 sense:

1. a southern group of Celtic languages

  Familiarity information: BRITTANIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITTANIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A southern group of Celtic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Brittanic; Brythonic

Hypernyms ("Brittanic" is a kind of...):

Celtic; Celtic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Brittanic"):

Cymric; Welsh (a Celtic language of Wales)

Cornish (a Celtic language spoken in Cornwall)

Breton (a Celtic language of Brittany)