Editing Anextiomarus

'''Anextiomarus''' ([[Gaulish language|Gaulish]]: ''Anextlomāros'', 'Great Protection') is a [[Celtic polytheism|Celtic]] epithet of the sun-god [[Apollo]] recorded in a [[Romano-British]] inscription from [[South Shields]], England. A variant form, ''Anextlomarus'', appears as a divine style or name attested in a fragmentary [[Gallo-Roman]] dedication from [[Le Mans]], France. Anextlomarus is also attested as a [[Gaulish]] man's father's name at [[Langres]], and a feminine divine form, ''Anextlomara'', appears in two other Gallo-Roman dedications from [[Avenches]], [[Switzerland]].

== Name ==
The Gaulish [[theonym]] ''Anextlomāros'' means 'Great Protection', that is to say 'he who is in Great Protection'. It stems from the noun ''anextlo''- ('protection'; cf. Old Irish ''anacul'') attached to ''māros'' ('great').{{Sfn|Markey|2003|pp=295–296}}{{Sfn|Delamarre|2003|pp=49, 218–219}}{{Sfn|Lambert|2008|p=|pp=91–92}}

== References ==
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*{{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|year=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Lambert|first=Pierre-Yves|author-link=Pierre-Yves Lambert|date=2008|title=Gaulois Solitumaros|journal=Études celtiques|volume=36|issue=1|pages=89–101|doi=10.3406/ecelt.2008.2303}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Markey|first=Tom L.|date=2003|title=Gaulish Anextlomārus Revisited|journal=Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics|volume=116|issue=2|pages=295–301|issn=0935-3518|jstor=40849195}}
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925013740/http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/Rbgods.htm Romano-British gods]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060614151211/http://avenches.ch/aventicum/fr/Musee/expop/a2217.htm Avenches museum]

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[[Category:Gods of the ancient Britons]]
[[Category:Epithets of Apollo]]