 Some of the surviving captives are reported to have been among the rebelling gladiators in the Third Servile War.The origin of the name "Cimbri" is unknown.One etymology is PIE ' "inhabitant", from ' "home" (> English "home"), itself a derivation from "" "live" (> Greek , Latin "sinō"); then, the Germanic "*himbra-" finds an exact cognate in Slavic "sębrъ" "farmer" (> Croatian, Serbian "sebar", Russian сябёр "syabyor").