Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Occianus

Name (citation form)Occianus
SourceIII 5398, ILLPRON 1361
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Schloss Seggau
Location (ancient)
CommunitySeggauberg
District, regionLeibnitz
Population group
Dateseverian
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
Languageprob. Celtic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN
Word formationhypocoristic short name ?
Prefix
First element*oco(n)- '?'
NPC 228
Second element
Suffixiano
Kajanto 109
Stem classo
Casenom. sg.
Semantic field?
Other
Relations(F) Occia, (M) Ingenua, (Si) Emerita, (Si) Ingenuina
General notesroot of underlying element beginning with oc- might be PIE *h2ek^-/h2ok^- 'sharp, edge' (OIr. ochair, Lat. ocris, Gr. ókris) (DLG2: 237).
Other attestations
Secondary literatureNPC 143, 228, Lochner 115 (Occia, Occius, Occianus)