Italo-Celtic

archaeological culture

catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies

language

extinct ancient language, spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by the Ligures, in what is now north-western Italy and south-eastern France (for the Romance language use Q36106)

extinct Indo-European language of Iberia

Central European forest of the Roman empire

language family

In modern English, the nouns vates () and ovate (, ) are used as technical terms for ancient Celtic bards, prophets and philosophers. The terms correspond to a Proto-Celtic word which can be reconstructed as . They are sometimes also used as English equivalents to later Celtic terms such as Irish "prophet, seer".