atbiti

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Attestation:	VB·29 (ueca/atbiti/f) (1)
Language:	Celtic
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o, i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	ad-bit(-(i)i̯)-ī or ate-bit(-(i)i̯)-ī
Phonemic Analysis:	/atbitī/
Meaning:	'of Atbit(i)us'

Commentary

o-stem personal name in the genitive; the inflection is Latin, but the name is etymologically Celtic, formed with bitu- 'world, age, life' and a preverb, either ad- or ate- (Rhŷs 1913: 55). The first option is supported by CIL XII 1386 ]adbitus; the attestation is incomplete, but listed in AcS I: 38, KGP: 111, GPN: 129 and Delamarre 2007: 11. It is not clear why */d/ should have become /t/ or otherwise be spelled with tau in the Latin alphabet; KGP: 111, 61 appears to assume influence from ate-formations on ad-formations. ate-bit- with syncopated /e/ is equally possible, but has no comparandum. See also Ponti 1896: 158, Ferrero 1897: 60, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 154, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 173, Morandi 2004: 568.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.