Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Barbia P(ublii) l(iberta) Amma

Name (citation form)Amma
SourceIII 11563, ILLPRON 262
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Magdalensberg
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityMagdalensberg
District, regionKlagenfurt-Land
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
Languageunknown, possibly Celtic
Genderf.
Name typecognomen
Use of nameL 2
Word formationsimple
Prefix
First element*amma- 'mother' / *am- 'to love' ?
NPC 210, Meid 215, 216, 252, DLG2: 43, EDPC 283
Second element
Suffix
Stem classa
Casenom. sg.
Semantic fieldFam
Other
Relations(LDus) Publius Barbius Spurius, (S) Rusticus, Cirro, Amphio, Boio
General notesThe underlying element *am- 'to love' can be either Latin (cf. amāre) or Celtic, cf. nāmant- 'enemy' < *ne-amant- (DLG2: 231, EDPC 283); the suffix -uco(n) is recurrent in a few names attested in Noricum, e.g. Momucus, Samucus, Satuca, Cotuco.
Other attestationsITA 1 (II IX/1, 204) HIS 6 (CIL II 880: Albocolensis, 5696, EE VIII 133, EE IX 292h, HAE 2083, ILER 6791) BEG 4 (CIL XIII 3620, 4059, 4176, 8152) PAN 2 (RIU 538, 1247), [A]mma PAN 1 (RIU 1197), Ama HIS 3 (CIL II 86 + IRCP 427, CIL II 5694, AEp 1973, 315) BEG 1 (CIL XIII 7551).
Secondary literatureMeid 215, 216, 252, DLG2: 43, EDPC 283, NPC 20 (Ammus, Ammo), 210, AlNor