Editing Maroboduus (section)

==Name==
The name appears in Latin and Greek texts spelt variously: ''Maroboduus, Marobodus, Maraboduus, Meroboduus, Morobuduus, Moroboduus, Marbodus'' and ''Marabodus'' in Latin sources; ''Maroboudos'' and ''Baroboudos'' in Greek ones.{{citationneeded|date=January 2023}}

According to linguist [[Xavier Delamarre]], the personal name ''Maroboduus'' is a latinized form of [[Gaulish]] ''Maro-boduos'', from ''maro''- ('great') attached to ''boduos'' ('crow'; cf. Middle Irish ''bodb'' 'scald-crow, war-divinity', Old Breton ''bodou'' '[[Ardea (bird)|ardea]]'; also [[Common Brittonic]] ''Boduoci'').{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=81}} The Celtic personal names ''Boduus'', ''Teuto-boduus'', ''Ate-boduus'', ''Soli-boduus'', ''Boduo-genus'', and ''Buduo-gnatus'' are related.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=81}}{{Sfn|Matasović|2009|p=70}}{{Sfn|Koch|2020|p=90}} Philologist [[John T. Koch]] argues that Middle Irish ''bodb'' must be understood as the 'bird on the battlefield and manifestation of the war-goddess'.{{Sfn|Koch|2020|p=90}}

The second element of the name, ''boduos'', is a term shared by Celtic and Germanic languages, where it is found as the common noun *''badwō'' ('battle'; cf. ON ''bǫð'', OE ''beado'', OS ''badu''-'','' OHG ''batu-'') and in the name of the war goddess ''[[Baduhenna]]''.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=81}}{{Sfn|Kroonen|2013|p=47}} The original meaning of Celtic–Germanic *''b<sup>h</sup>od<sup>h</sup>wo''- must have been 'battle, fight', later metaphorised in Celtic as 'crow', a bird symbolizing the carnage in battle.{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=81}}{{Sfn|Matasović|2009|p=70}}