Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

On Thu, 08 May 2003 08:11:30 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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>> [Glen:] Sounds like someone was thinking of "Larth", with a final aspirate dental stop, which is indeed an Etruscan name, although unrelated I'm pretty sure.
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>> [Miguel:] I rather suppose it's a reference to Laris (> Lars).
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><Lars> is the Latinised version of Etruscan <Larth> or <Lart>. In Latin, it was declined as either <Lars>/<Laris> or <Lars>/<Lartis> (<ad Lartem Porsenam>). Some grammarians seem to have believed that <Lar-> was more proper as a term of honorary address and <Lart-> as an Etruscan praenomen, but the distinction is probably artificial.

OK. Apparently the Etruscan praenomen Laris was rendered in Latin as
Lucius, as in the bilingual of Pesaro:

L. Cafatius L. f. Ste. haruspex fulguriator
cafates lr. lr. net$vis trutnvt frontac
(Lucius Cafatius Lucii filius (tribu) Stellatinae, haruspex,
fulguriator)
(Cafates Laris Larisal net$vis, trutnvt, frontac)

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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