uipios

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Attestation:	BI·6 (iouiku/uipios) (1)
Language:	unknown
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	u̯imp-ii̯-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/u̯impii̯os/
Meaning:	'(son) of Uip(i)os'

Commentary

Patronym in -ii̯- from a name uipos or uipios. The identification of the base is rendered difficult by the wealth of pertinent comparanda for various variants. From an inner-Celtic perspective, the most attractive choice is u̯imp- 'pretty', which is attested in Gaulish lexically and in personal names (e.g. uimpus, etc., Delamarre 2007: X). At the same find place as BI·6, a Latin inscription (no. 45 in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013) features an on-stem uipio, the name of a freedman – a variant of uimp(i)os which attests the loss of [m] before [p] in Cisalpine Celtic (see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages), or an entirely different name? Finally, the old Latin praenomen uibius is surprisingly well attested in Roman inscriptions in the Piemonte area (see Untermann 1960: 286 and 1961: 12 f. with map 26). In Transalpine Gaul, sporadic comparanda for the bases u̯ib- (uibiasena) and u̯ip(p)- (uipp(i)us, uipodualis, uipus – variant of u̯ep-?) do also exist.

Bibliography

Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013	Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.