Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Saurus Atvorti f(lius)

Name (citation form)Atuortus*
SourceILLPRON 861
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialsandstone
Date and origin
Location (modern)Rainberg
Location (ancient)
CommunityRuprechtshofen
District, regionMelk
Population group
Date1. c. AD
Source of dateSchierer
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationadverbial prefix compound (intensifying prefix + noun)
Prefix*ate-, *ati-, *at- 're-, very' or *ad- 'towards' ?
DLG2: 57, KGP 136, NPC 211, GPN 142f. / GPN 144,fn.3, 128-31, NPC 209, DLG2: 31, KGP 111-117, esp. 113, EDPC 24
First element*uoreto- 'help, support'
NPC 237, DLG2: 328, GPN 126, KPG 298, 300 (-vorti), 293 (verto-/vorto-)
Second element
Suffix
Stem classo
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldComm
Other
Relations(F) Atvortus
General notes*at(e)-uor(e)to- with syncope of e both in the first and second compound member. *uoreto- itself is a compound form *uo- 'sub' and *reto- 'run'. Differently: at(e)-uorto- with *uorto- being the Celtic o-grade variant of *uerto- as in Lat. vertere, cf. KGP 293. Alternatively, a morphological segmentation as *at(e)-uor(o)-to- is possible, too. For the second element cf. NPC 237: *uoro-.
Other attestationsAtevortus NOR 1 (CIL III 5272).
Secondary literatureRSW2 10 (Atevortus), NPC 30