Word.ws English Dictionary

Roxolani

Roxolani noun: a Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.

Noun

Roxolani pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.
    • Yet bears are tamed for labors, and especially for sports, among the Roxolani and Lybians, being taught to draw water with wheels out of the deepest wells and to draw stones upon sleds to the building of walls.1981, Edward Topsell, Malcolm South, Topsell's Histories of Beasts, page 24

Forms of Roxolani

alternative formRhoxolani

Questions about Roxolani

What does Roxolani mean?
Roxolani means a Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.
What part of speech is Roxolani?
Roxolani is a noun.

Words near Roxolani in the dictionary

  1. Roxie
  2. Roxilina
  3. roxindole
  4. roxithromycin
  5. Roxolana
  6. Roxolani
  7. Roxon
  8. roxor
  9. Roxton
  10. Roxtons
  11. Roxy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Roxolani (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Roxolani.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/roxolani. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.