Aratorés
HuescaAragón
Vasco-pre-Roman toponym of disputed etymology. The hypothesis with most support derives it from the Aquitanian anthroponym Aratoris (attested in Roman epigraphy of the Pyrenees) with the locative suffix -és characteristic of mountain Aragonese. It designates the small hamlet of the upper Aragón valley between Castiello de Jaca and Jaca.
The Aquitanian anthroponym Aratoris, documented in a dozen Roman funerary inscriptions of the central and western Pyrenees, is one of the best attested Vasco-Aquitanian personal names of Hispanic epigraphy. The current hamlet sits in a small Aragón meadow at 880 metres and preserves the Pyrenean rural houses of the 18th to 20th centuries.
Evolution of the name
- Aratoris Latinized Aquitanian 1st–4th centuries
- Aratorés medieval Aragonese from the 12th century
Glossary
- Anthroponym
- A personal name, often used as the base of toponyms (Lucronius → Logroño, Sigerici → Castrojeriz, Sacavus → Sacavém).
- Aquitanian epigraphy
- Set of Roman inscriptions of the central and western Pyrenees (1st-4th centuries AD) that preserve onomastics of the Aquitanian language, pre-Roman language linked to the old Basque substrate. It comprises more than four hundred funerary and votive inscriptions distributed between French Gascony, the Aragonese Pyrenees and Navarre. Anthroponyms like Aratoris, Belex, Sembe and Halsco are the best documented.
- Attested
- A form or word documented in writing in historical sources; opposed to "reconstructed" (forms proposed by comparative inference but not actually documented).
- Etymology
- The origin and history of a word and the phonetic and semantic changes it has undergone. An etymology may be confirmed, probable or disputed depending on documentary attestations and linguistic parallels.
- Locative suffix
- A Castilian ending marking "place of" or "workshop where X is worked": -ería (panadería, herrería), -ero/-era (barquera, Itero "place of the road"). From the Latin -arium.
- Pre-Roman
- Prior to the Romanisation of the Iberian peninsula (3rd century BC); applied to toponyms, linguistic roots and populations.
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Camino Aragonés