ateratos

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Attestation: TI·21 (ateratos) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o

Morphemic Analysis: ater-at-os or ate-rat-os
Phonemic Analysis: /ateratos/
Meaning: 'Ateratos'

Commentary

o-stem personal name of uncertain analysis.
Option 1: base ater- 'father' + suffix -at-, thus Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 23 f., 1978: 144 and 1981: 158 f., Morandi 1999: 168, Delamarre 2007: 211.
Option 2: prefix ate- + rato- 'fortune', thus KGP: 57 (who translates '(he who is) beyond luck'), 257, GPN: 144, 240, Lejeune 1971: 54, Motta 2000: 215.
Option 1 is supported by numerous names in ater- + ending or suffix, e.g. atera, aterus (taken for an Italic/Etruscan name by Lochner von Hüttenbach 1989: 20), aterius, aterissa, ateronius (CIL V 6518, Novara), ateronia (CIL V 6520, Novara), though all of these could theoretically be hypocoristics and derivations of a prefixed ate-ratos. The name is also attested in CIL XIII 11090 ateratus (dat. ATERATO, Bourges, Aquitania).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.