Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Saturninus [A]ubnissi f(ilius)

Name (citation form)[A]ubnissus*
SourceIII 5421, ILLPRON 1194
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Geisthal
Location (ancient)
CommunityGeisthal
District, regionVoitsberg
Population group
Datelate 1. c. AD
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
Languageunknown
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationhypocoristically suffixed
Prefix
First element*abon-, *abu- 'river' ? / *dubno-, *dumno- 'world', 'deep, dark'
DLG2: 29f., NPC 209, EDPC 23 / NPC 220, DLG2: 151, GPN 196, Meid 141, EDPC 107
Second element
Suffixisso
Stüber 2007: 151, Kajanto 129, KGP 41
Stem classo
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldPlace?
Other
Relations(S) Saturninus, (DiL) Suaducia
General notesreading of first letter unclear. [A]ubnissus finds hardly etymological connections, cf. La Graufesenque CIL XIII 10010, 2893f.: Aubioni (dat.); furthermore irritating is the writing as diphthong ; [D]ubnissus would be clearly Celtic and related to OIr. domain etc. < PCelt. *dubno-
Other attestations-
Secondary literatureLochner 24, DLG2: 29f., NPC 209, EDPC 23 / NPC 220, DLG2: 151, GPN 196, Meid 141, EDPC 107, Stüber 1998: 97f.