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 (probably) Gaulish names in ater- + ending or suffix, e.g. aterio at Carona, 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.