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Marsian
Etymology
Disputed.
- Perhaps from a place name *aproficulum.
- Perhaps from Proto-Italic *aprōnsk(e)los.
- Perhaps connected to the name Aprufenius, found in another inscription.
- It may be connected with another Marsian term aprusculani and the term Aprusconi, a cognomen discovered in the province of Venetia et Histria. The linguist Blanca María Prósper proposes, based on these possible cognates, that the term derives from a Sabellic ethnonym *aprūtsko-, itself from *aprūtikos. Prósper suggests that *aprūtikos derives from *aprūto-, from *aprōtos, itself from *apros + *-tos.
Proper noun
Aprufclano (likely nominative singular)
- a Marsian cognomen
- c. 294 BC, Caso Cantovios inscription (Italian Wikipedia; image 1, image 2):
CASO·CANTOVIO/S·APRUFCLANO·CEI/P(ED)·APURFINEM·E/CALICO·MENUR/BID·CASONTONI/SOCIEQUE·DONO/M·ATOLERO·ACTIA·/PRO·LNIBUS·MAR/TSES- Casos Cantovios Aprufclanos captured (this) near the finis Gallicus in the city of Casontonius, and his socii brought it as a gift to Angitia on behalf of the Marsic troops.
References
- Robert Seymour Conway (1897) The Italic Dialects (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 600
- Blanca María Prósper (2025 January 1) Of boars and men: the Latin inscription of the Fucine Lake and a note on the Oscan Tavola d’Agnone
- Archaic Latin Inscriptions. Inscriptions Proper 2. Dedicatory Inscriptions (quotation in English; overall work in English), 1940, page 58
- Roland G. Kent (1926) “On Some Animal Names in Italic”, in Language, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 184–190