aterio

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Attestation:	BG·41.1 (ateriolaniakios) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o, on
Morphemic Analysis:	ater-(i)i̯-ō or ater-(i)i̯-o(s)
Phonemic Analysis:	/ater(i)i̯ō/ or /ater(i)i̯o/
Meaning:	'Aterio'

Commentary

Masculine individual name in the nominative. An o-stem ater(i)i̯os is attested in Latinised form in CIL III 12914 aterius (Raetia); final -/s/ would be lost in the present case (see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages). The accompanying patronym laniakios, however, has final -/s/ intact. Unless the loss of -/s/ in the individual name is due to its position within the phrase, we can consider an on-stem ater(i)i̯ū with Latinised ending, though in this case a Latinised patronym laniakius might be expected. Also possible may be inner-Celtic -/ū/ > -/ō/, though such a development is badly supported.

The base is most straightforwardly analysed as ater- 'father'. An alternative segmentation into preverb ate- + rii̯- 'free' ('free again') (cf. ateratos) is questionable, since ate- is combined with verbs and participles, not primary adjectives.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)