Belatucadros
Gaulish
Etymology
A compound of belatu- (“death”), linked to Old Irish atbaill (“to perish, die”) & Proto-Celtic *balnīti (“to die”),[1] & cadros (“beautiful”),[2] which is proposed to be related to Welsh cadr (“beautiful”), Breton kaer (“beautiful”), & Old Breton cadr (“beautiful”), but Delamarre regards this connection as problematic as the Brittonic forms go back to Proto-Celtic *katros.
Attestation
Known from around 28 inscriptions near Hadrian's Wall.[3]
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
- ^ 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