sinus
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| Attestation: | BI·7 (ṣịṇus:uịnḍonus) (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: | o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | sin-us |
| Phonemic Analysis: | °/us/ |
| Meaning: | 'Sinus' |
Commentary
Individual name in the nominative with Latinised ending -us instead of -os. A base sin- finds sporadic comparanda in Transalpine Gaul, see Delamarre 2007: 169, 232. See DLG: 175 on options for semantics and etymology, including that sin- is a variant of sen- 'old' with raised [e] before [n] (cf. maybe uini).
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
