ciponis

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Attestation:	VB·30 (surica/ciponis/f) (1)
Status:	probable
Language:	unknown
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	cip-onis
Phonemic Analysis:	/ciponis/
Meaning:	'of Cipo'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the reading.

Latinised on-stem personal name cipō in the genitive (cf. Schürr 2007: 343). The name finds hardly any comparanda in Gaulish; cf. at most the potter's name cipario listed by Delamarre 2007: 66. If /i/ changes with /e/ (or /ī/ with /ē/), we may compare the only slighly better connected kepi at Garlasco. Alternatively, the name may be derived from the Latin gentilicium cipius of the prominent Campanian metalworking clan.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.