Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

M(arcus) Attonius Seranus

Name (citation form)Seranus
SourceAEAustr 2007, 177
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialsandstone/conglomerate
Date and origin
Location (modern)Traismauer
Location (ancient)—
CommunityTraismauer
District, regionSt. Pölten
Population group—
Date2. c. AD
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
Languageunknown
Genderm.
Name typecognomen
Use of nameL 3
Word formationsimple
Prefix—
First element*sero- ? '?'
Second element—
Suffixano
Stem classo
Casenom. sg.
Semantic field?
Other
Relations—
General notesSeranus is widespread in Hispania mainly. NPC 167 reconstructs tentatively *Stera-no-; if this is correct, the word 'star', PIE *h2ster- is involved, which is otherwise attested with lengthened grade only in Gaulish *sīro < *stēr-.
Other attestationsITA 3 (CIL V 932, 7310, 7428), HIS 16 (CIL II 226, 379, 2799, 2804, 2827 [2], 2875, 2966 - 2967, 5172, 5321, CIL II,2/5, 391a, CIL II,2/7, 60a, CIL II,2/14, 145, 778-779, EE IX 119, AE 1971, 183), BEG 5 (CIL XIII 4168, 8572, 8716, AE 1973, 379, ILTG 449), NAR 9 (CIL XII 3018a, 3909, 3932, 5753, 5938a, E 195 [2], 490, 533), PAN 1 (Kuzsinszky p. 67 n. 382), AQV 8 (CIL XIII 42, 92, 112, 273, 330, 369, 391, 471), BRI 1 (AE 1967, 255), MIN 1 (CIL III 14214), MSV 1 (IMS II 325 = IDR III/1,1), [S?]eranus BEG 1 (Clauss 7), NAR 1 (E 527), Seran[us] HIS 1 (RIT 388), BEG 1 (CIL XIII 8101), AQV 1 (CIL XIII 142), Seran(us) HIS 1 (ILER 5498), AQV 1 (CIL XIII 375), Serans HIS 1 (CIL II 2966), Σηρᾶνος PAN 1 (AIJ 526), Seran{n}a HIS 1 (CIL II 3041), Serana HIS 3 (CIL II 4449, IRC I 58, IRC II 24, HAE 1480 + Étienne), NAR 3 (CIL XII 3243, 3973, 4008), AQV 1 (CIL XIII 375)
Secondary literatureNPC 167