Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Sammus Terti(i filius)

Name (citation form)Sammus
SourceILLPRON 1298
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Passail
Location (ancient)
CommunityPassail
District, regionWeiz
Population group
Date1. c. AD/1. H. 2. c. AD
Source of dateCIL, Weber/lupa
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN + patronym
Word formationhypocoristic short name
Prefix
First element*sam- 'one, together' / *samo- 'summer' / *sāmo- 'calm'
NPC 231 / DLG2: 267, Meid 240f., KGP 264, GPN 252, Stüber 99f., EDPC 321
Second element
Suffixo
Stem classo
Casenom. sg.
Semantic fieldBirth?
Other
Relations(F) Tertius, (W) Valentina
General notesprobably short name from compound in Samo-°, cf. Stifter 2004 (FS Dobesch): 768 (Samuus, Samuda)
Other attestationsBEG 1 (CIL XIII 8607) NAR 1 (CIL XII 2808) PAN 1 (CSIRÖ I/3, 285) NOR 5 (CIL III 5052, Leber 173, RISt 302, 329, 332) AQV 1 (CIL XIII 1341), [Sam?]mus NOR 1 (RISt 290), Samma NOR 2 (CIL III 5372, Leber 139).
Secondary literatureLochner 139, NPC 159, 231 / DLG2: 267, Meid 240f., KGP 264, GPN 252, Stüber 99f., EDPC 321, AlNor