sinus

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Attestation: BI·7 (ṣịṇus:uịnḍonus) (1)
Language: Celtic
adapted to: Latin
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o

Morphemic Analysis: sen-us (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /sinus/
Meaning: 'Sinus'

Commentary

Individual name in the nominative with Latinised ending. A base sin- finds sporadic comparanda in Transalpine Gaul, see Delamarre 2007: X. Maybe sen- 'old'?

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.