Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Rumae f(iliae)

Name (citation form)Ruma
SourceIII 5350, ILLPRON 1231
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Grottenhof bei Leibnitz
Location (ancient)
CommunityKaindorf an der Sulm
District, regionLeibnitz
Population groupRoman
Date1. c. AD
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderf.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN
Word formationsimple / short name
Prefix
First element*rūmo- 'Rome', 'Roman' ?
Lochner 135f., Kajanto 226, NPC 230, Stifter HS 122 (2009): 270ff.
Second element
Suffixa
Kajanto 105
Stem classa
Casedat. sg.
Semantic fieldOrig / Place
Other
Relations(M) Tatuca, (F) Adiatullus, (GFf) Vepotalus, (GFm) Vervicus
General notesGaulish form with sound substitution ū for Latin ō (Rōma-), cf. Stifter 2009: 270ff. -> absence of the phoneme ō in Gaulish during the period of contact with the Roman Empire.
Other attestationsNOR 1 (Leber 265), NAR 1 (CIL XII 5093).
Secondary literatureLochner 135f., NPC 156, 230, Kajanto 226