Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

L(ucius) Optaius V[err]ucosus

Name (citation form)V[err]ucosus*
SourceEgger 292
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptiondedicatory
Materialharl
Date and origin
Location (modern)Magdalensberg
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityMagdalensberg
District, regionKlagenfurt-Land
Population group
Date
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
Languageunknown
Genderm.
Name typecognomen
Use of nameL 3
Word formationadverbial prefix compound (prefix + noun)
Prefix*uer- 'over-, sur-, up'
NPC 236, DLG2: 314, GPN 279f.
First element*rucco- 'red, blush'
NPC 230, DLG2: 263, Meid 280
Second element
Suffix(o)so
Kajanto 122
Stem classo
Casenom. sg.
Semantic fieldApp
Other
Relations
General notesA different morphological segmentation would be *ueru- 'large, wide' (NPC 236, DLG2: 317, 439, GPN 123) + ucoso-suffix (??) ?
Other attestationsVerruci(us) PAN 1 (CIL III 11153), Verrucius HIS 2 (AE 1971, 155, 155 - CIL II 828)
Secondary literatureNPC 236, 230, DLG2: 263, 314, 317, 439, GPN 279f., Meid 280