Belatucadros
Gaulish
Etymology
Lambert states it to be either the name of a deity or an epithet attached to a deity. [1] Delamarre reads the first component as belatu- (“death”), which he links to the attested names Belatulla, Belatullius, Belatullus, & Belatus and compares it to Old Irish atbaill (“to perish, die”) and Proto-Celtic *balnīti (“to die”).[2] Savignac reads the second component as cadros (“beautiful”),[3] with a proposed relation to Welsh cadr (“beautiful”), Breton kaer (“beautiful”), & Old Breton cadr (“beautiful”), but Delamarre regards this connection as problematic as the Brittonic forms would go back to Proto-Celtic *katros.
Attestation
Known from around 28 inscriptions near Hadrian's Wall.[4]
Noun
Belatucadros
- Epithet of Mars, with a proposed meaning of "beautiful death".
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Belatucadros | Belatucadroi |
| vocative | Belatucadre | Belatucadroi |
| accusative | Belatucadron | Belatucadrōs1, Belatucadrūs2 |
| genitive | Belatucadri | Belatucadron |
| dative | Belatucadrū | Belatucadrobo |
| instrumental | Belatucadrū | Belatucadruis1, Belatucadrūs2 |
| locative | Belatucadrei1, Belatucadrē2 | Belatucadrois |
1 early form
2 late form
References
- ^ Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2013), "Le Statut du Théonyme gaulois" in Théonymie Celtique, Cultes, Interpretatio - Keltische Theonymie, Kulte, Interpretatio, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, page 115
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier; Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2003), Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 96
- ^ Savignac, Jean-Paul (2004), Dictionnaire français-gaulois, →ISBN, page 61
- ^ Coulston, Jon C.; Phillips, E.J. (1988), Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Volume I, Fascicule 6: Hadrian's Wall West of the North Tyne, and Carlisle, British Acadamy, →ISBN