 Jordanes in the 6th century, reported in his Gothic origins story the "Getica", that the name of the Gepids came from "gepanta", an insult in Gothic meaning "sluggish, stolid" ("pigra"), because the Gepids had lagged behind their Gothic kin when they migrated more than a thousand years earlier.Isidore of Seville in his etymologies, interpreted the second part of the Gepid name as "feet" (Latin "pedes") and explained that the Gepids were known for going into battle on foot ("pedestri"), rather than mounted.The much later (12th century) Byzantine "Etymologicum Magnum" interprets the name using the Greek word for children, making the Gepids "Gētípaides" (Γητίπαιδες) meaning "children of the Goths (equated to Getae)".