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

  1. Epithet of Mars with a proposed meaning of "beautiful death"

Declension

    declension of Belatucadros (Transalpine)
Case Singular Plural
Nominative Belatucadroi
Vocative Belatucadre Belatucadroi
Accusative Belatucadron Belatucadrōs1, Belatucadrūs2
Genitive Belatucadri Belatucadron
Dative Belatucadrū Belatucadrobo
Instrumental Belatucadrū Belatucadruis1, Belatucadrūs2
Locative Belatucadrei1, Belatucadrē2 Belatucadrois
1 early forms, 2 late forms

References

  1. ^ Delamarre, Xavier, Lambert, Pierre-Yves (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 96
  2. ^ Savignac, Jean-Paul (2004) Dictionnaire français-gaulois, →ISBN, page 61
  3. ^ 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
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