Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Masso Pretoriani (servus)

Name (citation form)Masso
SourceIII 5623; p. 2328,49
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Vorchdorf
Location (ancient)
CommunityGmunden
District, regionGmunden
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
Languageprob. Celtic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN
Word formationsimple
Prefix
First element*masso-, massa-, *mađđa-, *mast- '?'
NPC 226, Kajanto 341
Second element
Suffixon
KGP 41, Stüber 1998: 108, Kajanto 118
Stem classn
Casenom. sg.
Semantic field?
Other
Relations(Dus) Pretorianus
General notespossibly < *mat-to- < *matu- 'good' + to-suffix or mad-to-, cf. NPC 226.
Other attestationsBEG 1 (Nesselhauf - Lieb 50) NAR 2 (CIL XII 1299, 2243>2259) LVG 1 (AE 1964, 51) Masó NAR 1 (E 347)
Secondary literatureNPC 127, 226, Kajanto 341, Lochner 102 (Massa)