Ulfilas

[ uhl-fi-luh s ]

/ ˈʌl fɪ ləs /

a.d. c311–c382, Christian bishop to the Goths: translated Bible into the Gothic language.

Also Ul·fi·la

[uhl-fi-luh] /ˈʌl fɪ lə/, Wulfila.

Example sentences from the Web for ulfilas

Low as they had fallen, they could still count among them the great name of Ulfilas.

The Arian Controversy |H. M. Gwatkin
It was the outstanding merit of Ulfilas that he translated the Bible into Gothic.

Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories |Anonymous
They still held to the primitive faith taught them by Ulfilas and their Gothic Bible.

Spain |Frederick Albion Ober
They had never learned from the Goths of Ulfilas anything about Christianity.

Introductory American History |Henry Eldridge Bourne

There was a Gothic translation of the Bible, which is supposed to have been made in the fourth century by Ulfilas.

The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation |Ernst Von Dobschutz

Ulfilas

/ (ˈʊlfɪˌlæs) /

?311–?382 ad, Christian bishop of the Goths who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic