matikios

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Attestation: BI·2 (]aki??ịos:matikios) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: patronymic

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

Morphemic Analysis: mat-ik-ii̯-os
Phonemic Analysis: /matikios/
Meaning: 'the Matikian'

Commentary

Patronym in -ii̯- from a personal name matikos or matiki̯os, formed from the base mat- 'good' with a k-suffix; cf. matico, maticia, maticius in Latin inscriptions from Transalpine Gaul (Delamarre 2007: 128). Cf. Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 32 f.

Corinna Salomon

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.