Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Dumiae Ateponis f(iliae)

Name (citation form)Atepo
SourceIII 11572, ILLPRON 468
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)St. Peter am Wallersberg
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityVölkermarkt
District, regionVölkermarkt
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationadverbial prefix compound (intensifying prefix + noun), hypocoristically suffixed
Prefix*ad- 'towards'
GPN 128-31, NPC 209, DLG2: 31, KGP 111-117, EDPC 24
First element*tepo- 'to run'
NPC 234
Second element
Suffix
Stem classn
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldComb, Circ
Other
Relations(W) Adnama, (FiL) Anectio, (D) Dumia
General notesAtepo- < *ad- + *tepo- (NPC 211, 234); Meaning of compound German 'Heranläufer', 'someone running close'. Differently, one could assume that the morphological segmentation is rather At-epo-, i.e. *ate- 're-, very' + *epo- 'horse* (p-Celtic).
Other attestationsBEG 1 (CIL XIII 4163) NAR 4 (CIL XII 1127, 2795, 3944, 5085), [Ate]po BEG 1 (CIL XIII 5706).
Secondary literatureAlNor, Meid 95 (Atepomarus), Stüber 105 (Atepomarus), NPC 29, 209, 211 (atepo- < ad-tepo-), 234, GPN 128-31, DLG2: 31, KGP 111-117, EDPC 24