Hanseatic

From Medieval Latin hanseaticus, from hansa, of Germanic origin, from Old High German hansa (“troop, company”), from Proto-West Germanic *hansu (“crowd, company”).

Hanseatic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the German Hanse.
   • 1911, “Bergen”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 3, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 772:

     The Hanseatic museum is housed in a carefully-preserved gaard, or store-house and offices of the Hanseatic League of German merchants, who inhabited the German quarter (Tydskenbryggen) and were established here in great strength from 1445 to 1558 (when the Norwegians began to find their presence irksome), and brought much prosperity to the city in that period.

• Hanseatic city
• Hanseatic League