Re: Metius Fufetius

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> And fufidia? Possible link to fides, foed-? Excuse my ignorance.

In an old paper accessed via JSTOR at

http://tinyurl.com/2dxrl5 ,

G.D. Chase maintains that the Lat. praenomen Fufidius, -a (from
which the name of the gens Fufidia is likely to have been derived)
requires comparison with the name of the gens Eufta. (Why?)

There was also a more ancient and famous gens, the gens Fufia, whose
name is similar to Fufidia, but I frankly don't know whether the two
are related or not.

Cheers,
Francesco

> Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@>
> wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know the etymology and meaning of Metius Fufetius?
>
> Met(t)ius is probably derived from the Oscan term meddiss
> ('magistrate'?), the title of the office this king of Alba Longa

is

> presumed to have held.
>
> Fufetius, in all likelihood a fictitious name, appears to be a

play

> on the name of the Roman gens Fufidia.
>
> See J.D. Noonan's paper (pay-per-view) at
>
> http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/ca.2006.25.2.327
>
> I only could "spy" the aforesaid etymologies discussed in the

paper

> through a complicate googling process, but I have no access to the
> full text of the paper!
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
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