 Under the spelling Teutates, the god is also known from a passage in Lucan.The name "Teutates" is derived from the stem "teutā-", meaning "people" or "tribe", cognate with the Germanic "*þeudō".Teutates was one of three Celtic gods mentioned by the Roman poet Lucan in the 1st century AD, the other two being Esus ("lord") and Taranis ("thunderer").