rupelos

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Attestation:	TI·11 (rupelos) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	prob. Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	rup-el-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/rūbelos/ or /rupellos/
Meaning:	'Rupelos'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

The form is an o-stem personal name formed with an l-suffix (see -il(l)-). Celtic comparanda can be found, if sparsely, for both rup- and rub-. See the discussion in Rhŷs 1913: 24 of some of the forms cited by Holder AcS II: 1237, esp. rubellinus in Transalpine Gaul, though the distribution in place names may indicate a non-Celtic base (cf. Motta 2000: 212). Holder AcS II: 1248 lists isolated onomastic forms in rup-; Schmidt KGP: 116, 262 has CIL XIII 994 adruppo (Aquitania). Cf. also the coin legend RIG M-247 rupios (previously read rubios).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)