esonius
Attestation: | BI·4 (esonius:urenti/akitu:esonius/ueriounos) (1) |
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Language: | Celtic |
adapted to: | Latin |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
Stem Class: | i̯o |
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Morphemic Analysis: | eχs-obn-(i)i̯-us |
Phonemic Analysis: | /essōn(i)i̯us/ or /essonn(i)i̯us/ |
Meaning: | 'Esonius' |
Commentary
Individual name in the nominative with Latinised ending. The base may be analysed as *eχsobn- 'fearless', cf. esopnos (see there for details on the analysis and comparanda), esopnio, exobna. *[χs] is spelled with sigma also in the two alphabetically Lepontic attestations; the labial in obn- may be assimilated via -ou̯n- (cf. RIU VI 1359 exounomarae (dat.)) > -ōn-, or via -omn- > -onn-. Solinas in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 104, n. 13 and 22 compares instances of *eχsobn-, but in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 47 she points out that there are no other attestations of the name with completely assimilated labial, and prefers to compare esoniana [tegula] in a pottery stamp from the area of Padova (1st c. AD) – which, however, in absence of an Italic etymology, may well also belong with the *eχsobn-names.
See the inscription page on the possibility of a homographic patronym esonius formed from the individual name.
Bibliography
Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011 | Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, "Il messaggio epigrafico: Riconoscimento del sepolcro e strategia della memoria", in: Luisa Brecciaroli Taborelli (ed.), Oro, pane e scrittura. Memorie di una comunità "inter Vercellas et Eporediam" [= Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 24], Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2011, 89–106. |
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Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013 | Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013. |