atios

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Attestation:	VB·4 (atios) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	at(t)-(i)i̯-os (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/at(t)(i)i̯os/ (?)
Meaning:	'Atios'

Commentary

A name attius is attested a few times in Transalpine Gaul (see Delamarre 2007: 32), as are numerous names in at(t)- (see the morpheme page); cf. Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 202. As noted by Rhŷs 1913: 60, antios or adios are equally possible – both could be a hypocoristics from any name in ant- (Delamarre 2007: 23) or ad-; for the latter, Rhŷs compares adio at Arles (CIL XII 796), and cf. the potter's name adius at Friedberg (Samian Research ID 15375). Kretschmer 1905: 125 compares Ligurian saltus atielia on the Tabula Alimentaria I.79.

See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145, Morandi 1999: 173, Morandi 2004: 553. Cf. maybe BS·15.

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.