diuconis

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Attestation:	VB·24 (exobna/diuconis/f) (1)
Language:	prob. Celtic
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	dī-u̯ik-onis (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/dīu̯konis/ (?)
Meaning:	'of Diuco'

Commentary

Grammatically Latin patronymic genitive; the underlying personal name diukō is likely from Celtic diukū. Beside the most immediate comparandum diuco on a gravestone from Bee near Verbania (Lanza & Poletti Ecclesia 2021: 333–335), names of this form are attested in Transalpine Gaulish: CIL XII 1098 diuccius (St. Saturnin d'Apt), XIII 4244 diuciae (dat., Franzenheim), 4306 diuciana (Sablon), 11377 diuc (Metz); Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 262 (also 1981: 168) suggests a connection with names in dī-u̯ik- 'avenge' (AcS I: 1289 f. KGP: 194 f., GPN: 81–83, DLG: 145 f., Delamarre 2007: 87), which are attested in the vicinity of diuc-names (CIL XIII 11376 diuicius [Metz], 4371 diuiciae [dat., La-Horgne-au-Sablon]). Thus also Morandi 2004: 565, Stüber 2005: 69, 95, Wodtko 2013: 226; the syncopation of /i/ would be from longer formations like dīu̯ik(i)i̯os and transferred back to shorter ones. Alternatively, the names could be derived with a velar suffix from diu̯o- 'god (uel sim.)' with dropped thematic vowel diu̯-uk- (cf. maybe CIL V 5567 banuca, if banu̯(o)-uk-); the two forms may have influenced each other (cf. also CIL VII 160 deuccus [Wroxeter], AE 1939, 285 deuconis [Scarbantia]).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
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.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.