alios

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Attestation:	CO·73 (alios), VR·20 (apios) (2)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	all-(i)i̯-os (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/al(l)(i)i̯os/
Meaning:	'Alios'

Commentary

Personal name in the nominative, either a short name with suffix -(i)i̯- derived from allo- 'other' (lit. 'Secundus', cf. Rhŷs 1913: 42–44), or hypocoristic from a compound name with first element allo- (e.g. CIL XIII 3109 allobrox [cogn., Nîmes], XIII 1323 allovire [Clion]). Theoretically, the base could also be ali̯o-, cf. the n-stem CIL V 7730 alioni (cogn., Mondovi), but names in allo- are overall more common (cf. in the Alpine region CIL XII 81 [AE 1999, no. 997] allius [gent.] and 85 alliae at Embrun). See also Pauli 1885: 73 f., Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 197, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 110 f., Morandi 2004: 650.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)