Reo is a name appearing on Latin dedications to a
Lusitanian-
Gallaecian deity, usually with an epithet relating to a place, such as Reo Paramaeco discovered in
Lugo
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in
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
. The name ''Reo'' is in the Latin
dative case, for a
Latinized name ''*Reus''.
Name and meaning
Apart from ''Reo Larauco'' (Reus of
Larouco
Larouco is a municipality in Ourense (province) in the Galicia region of north-west Spain
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) the epithets share an ''-aik-'' element interpreted as an
adjectival marker familiar from Lusitanian inscriptions in the dedications to Reo ''Paramaeco'' (Reus of
Paramo) ''Amoaego Arcunii'', ''Anabaraeco'', and ''Alabaraico Sulensi''. The first element ''Reo/Reus'' is very similar to the name ''Reue'' appearing on the Lusitanian
Cabeço das Fráguas inscription, part of which reads
INDI TAVROM IFADEM REVE T..., usually interpreted as "and (''or'' thereafter) a fertile(?) bull for Reue" with the epithet lost. ''Reue'' therefore also seems to be a dative in the Lusitanian form of the name. ''Reue'' appears again on the
Ribeira da Venda inscription, including an epithet, as
REVE AHARACVI - this time the deity is receiving a sacrifice of ten sheep.
Polish scholar K. T. Witczak derives the name from earlier ''*
diewo'', suggesting that the
Lusitanian language changed the
Proto-Indo European ''d'' to ''r'', making Reo a sky deity similar to (and having a name
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words in different languages that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymology, etymological ancestor in a proto-language, common parent language. Because language c ...
with) the Greek
Zeus and Roman
Jupiter, something which may be supported by dedications to him near mountains which also allude to Roman Jupiter; however other authorities such as Blázquez and Villar suggest he may have been a deity linked to rivers and that the name derives from a root meaning a flow or current.
See also
*
Bull (mythology)
References
Bibliography
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Further reading
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* Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares. "Los dioses soberanos y los ríos en la religión indígena de la Hispania indoeuropea". In: ''Gerión'' n. 18 (2000). pp. 191-212.
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Prósper, Blanca María; Liébana, Francisco Villar. "Nuevo epígrafe votivo dedicado a la divinidad Reve en La Coruña". In: ''Palaeohispánica: Revista sobre lenguas y culturas de la Hispania antigua'' Nº. 3, 2003, pp. 271-282. .
* Prósper, Blanca María (2010). «REVE ANABARAECO, Divinidad Acuática De Las Burgas (Orense»). In: ''Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua'', n.º 9 (noviembre), 203-14. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i9.224.
* Redentor, Armando (2013). "Testemunhos De Reve No Ocidente Brácaro". In: ''Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua'' n.º 13 (julio) pp. 219-35. https://ifc.dpz.es/ojs/index.php/palaeohispanica/article/view/162.
Lusitanian gods
Gallaecian gods
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