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Look up Gothic, goth, Goth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gothic or Goth may refer to:
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The Goths – some five East Germanic tribes in the Migration Age after the fall of the West Roman Empire.
The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths. It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation. It is divided into three subgroupes: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and Crimean Gothic.
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
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