Original scientific paper

The Naming of Women in Early Roman Liburnia and the so-called "Female Praenomina"

Anamarija Kurilić orcid.org/0000-0001-7178-4584 ; University of Zadar, Department of History

Abstract

The article discuuses the system of naming women in early Roman Liburnia. Particular attention is paid to formulas where the personal name is in the first position in naming a woman (the so-called female "praenomina"), in front of the indigenous collective name or in front of the Latin gentilicium. Such a system of naming was autochthonous among the Liburnians, and was a reflection of the structure in which a female was experienced as a discrete individual, and in which women were more or less equal to men, and hence their naming was carried out in the same manner as for men.

Keywords

Liburnian anthroponomy; Roman anthroponomy; "female praenomina"

Hrčak ID:

37009

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37009

Publication date:

23.5.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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