Italian, Romanian, and other languages use the latinate Germania as the name for Germany. * Allemagne (French), Alemania (Spanish), Alemanha (Portuguese): either land of all the men i.e. our many tribes" or from the Alamanni, a southern Germanic tribe. * Deutschland (German), Duitsland (Dutch): from the Old High German word diutisc, meaning 'of the people' (itself from ancient Germanic thiud