Name details
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name (attested) | Vircaioni f(ilio) |
| Name (citation form) | Vircaio* |
| Source | III 4911 = 11514, ILLPRON 802 |
| Source type | epigraphic |
| Type of inscription | sepulcral |
| Material | marble |
| Date and origin | |
| Location (modern) | Zollfeld |
| Location (ancient) | Virunum |
| Community | Maria Saal |
| District, region | Klagenfurt-Land |
| Population group | — |
| Date | — |
| Source of date | — |
| Linguistic notes | |
| Language | Celtic |
| Gender | m. |
| Name type | IN |
| Use of name | IN |
| Word formation | adverbial prefix compound (prefix + noun) |
| Prefix | *uer- 'over-, sur-, up' / [or *u̯iro- 'man' or *u̯īro- 'true, righteous'] NPC 236, DLG2: 314 / 321, GPN 279f. / 286 |
| First element | *ca(g)io- 'enclosure' DLG2: 97, NPC 214 |
| Second element | — |
| Suffix | on |
| Stem class | n |
| Case | dat. sg. |
| Semantic field | Comb / Comm |
| Other | |
| Relations | (M) Titiu, (F) Felix, (GMf) Cilumba, (GMm) Atera |
| General notes | Note the (mis-?)spelling of prefix *uer- as *uir- here. Or different morphological segmentation: first member of tatpurusa (?) compound *u̯iro- 'man' (OIr. fer) or *u̯īro- 'true, righteous' (cf. NPC 236) + *caion-. |
| Other attestations | Ve[r]caius NOR 1 (CIL III 5444), Vercaius DAL 1 (CIL III 9796) NOR 10 (CIL III 5073, 5084, 5112, 5422, 5440, 5641, 14366,6, Egger 24, Leber 35, 273), [Ver?]caius NOR 1 (Leber 172), Vergaius NOR 1 (CIL III 5698). |
| Secondary literature | Lochner 179, NPC 195, 214, 236, DLG2: 97, 314, 321, GPN 279f., 286, AlNor |