cipośis

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Attestation:	VB·30 (surica/ciponis/f) (1)
Status:	unlikely
Language:	unknown
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i
Morphemic Analysis:	cipoś-is
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	'of Cipoś'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

The form, being a patronymic genitive followed by f. in an alphabetically Latin inscription, could only be a consonant stem cipośs, i.e. cipods (hardly with san for a tau gallicum cluster). The convenient comparandum cipodi cited by Rhŷs 1913: 56 and repeated by Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 173 is, however, a chimera: line 2 of CIL V 8934 (Suno) reads secuddi (recte secundi). We are left with a linguistically highly implausible form (cf. Stifter 2024b: 137).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)