kituaretos

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Attestation:	MI·24 (kituaretos?) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	kint-u-u̯a-ret-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/ki(n)tuu̯aretos/
Meaning:	'Kituaretos'

Commentary

Compound personal name with first element kintu- 'first' (cf. Casini & Motta 2011: 467) and second/third element u̯a-reto- 'help'. A comparandum exists in the Galatian name centaretus (Pliny; also κεντοαράτης Aelianus, cintaretus Solinus; AcS I: 988 f., Freeman 2001: 37 f.).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
Casini & Motta 2011	Stefania Casini, Filippo Motta, "Alcune iscrizioni preromane inedite da Milano", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 19 (2011), 459–469.
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.
Freeman 2001	Philip Freeman, The Galatian Language. A Comprehensive Survey of the Language of the Ancient Celts in Graeco-Roman Asia Minor [= Ancient Near Eastern Texts and Studies 13], Lampeter – Queenston: Edwin Mellen Press 2001.