Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Gracco [---] Atobitis

Name (citation form)[---]atobitis* ?
SourceIII 5087, ILLPRON 372
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialstone
Date and origin
Location (modern)Preims
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityWolfsberg
District, regionWolfsberg
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
Languageprob. Celtic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationcompound, not further determinable
Prefix*ate-, *ati-, *at- 're-, very' ? / *[---?]ato- ? '?'
? / DLG2: 57, KGP 136, NPC 211, GPN 142
First element*bitu- 'world'
KGP 149f., DLG2: 76, 77 (biuo- > bio-), NPC 213
Second element
Suffixi
KGP 95f.
Stem classi
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldComm?
Other
Relations
General notesThe second compound member looks Celtic and is reminiscent of the etymon *bitu- 'world'; in composition, the concomitant change into the i-stem-inflection is of PIE heritage (cf. KGP 95f. with further references). The guesses concerning the potential lacuna (the inscription goes: ... GRACCO [---] / ATOBITIS ...) at the beginning of the first compound member [---]ato-, e.g. (C)ato-°, (Com)ato-, (Gn)ato-°, (M)ato-°, (R)ato-°-, are all very hypothetical, because *bitu- as second compound member is rare (KGP 150 listes Daribitus and Solibites (gen.) only), and the right order is Bitugnatus (KGP 218) and not †Gnato-bitus for instance. Thus, the first compound member remains unclear unless the name´s beginning is not broken at all. Then, Ato-° could theoretically reflect the prefix *ate- with rounding of the vowel e > o in front of the subsequent labial stop of -bitis. Note that -e- remained unchanged in Atebonius (RSW 2: 12), however.
Other attestations?
Secondary literatureDLG2: 57, 76 (biuo- > bio-), KGP 136, 149f., NPC 211, 213, GPN 142