*CORIA SOLILIORUM, quelque part en Angleterre

* Coria Soliliorum : non identifié, mais apparemment dans les Midlands d'Angleterre. 

- cf Rivet & Smith, Place-Names of Roman Britain, p 320 : 

CORIA SOLILIORUM

SOURCE

An inscription, published in JRS, LVI (1966), 223. It was found in 1965 in the remains of a Roman building on the west side of Watling Street near Caves Inn (Tripontium), Warwicks. It consists of four lines cut before firing on a tegula (now in two portions) :

(CIV)ITATISCORIELSOLILIOROM[. . ./
/. . .JNIOM/
. . . .JCESOM

'Corielsoliliorom seems to indicate the genitive plural of a tribal name and perhaps adds a new civitas in Britain.'

DERIVATION. If we construe '(property of) the civitas of Coria Soliliorum', as seems natural, we can isolate Corie of the text as a Vulgar Latin genitive singular (e for classical ae, as is normal). The -l- seems meaningless in Celtic or Latin, and must be intrusive; perhaps the man who cut the text from a handwritten draft was confusedly anticipating the two ls which follow. The text has further Vulgar Latin features which mark it as careless and probably late : not only the genitive plural in the first line, -orom for classical -orum, but in lines 2 and 4 further genitive plurals of the third declension (or less probably second-declension masculine accusatives or neuters), which show the same o for u.

The ethnicon is presumably in the nominative Solilii, or possibly Soliliores. This is unrecorded elsewhere. There are several personal names in Soli-, notably Solimarus and related forms, also the place-name Curio-soli-magus (Holder n. 1602) and the Coriosolites of Gaul, whose name is clearly an important parallel for the British ethnicon. The group is studied by K. H. Schmidt in ZCP, XXVI (1957), 270-71, with the suggestion that Soli- in these names is connected with the divine name Sulis (see AQUAE SULIS), Irish sûil 'eye', etc. ; a problem remains in that Soli- with -o- does not have the expected -u-, but Schmidt cites Solinus as a latinised version of Celtic Sulinus and is inclined to think that Celtic names with -o- have been influenced by Latin sol 'sun' (which may indeed ultimately be related). The sense of the present name as a whole is still not easy to analyse. For Coria, see CORIA 1. 

IDENTIFICATION. Unknown, but apparently in the Midlands of England".

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Coria 1 :voir Barochen Hill, Renfrewshire, Ecosse.

En résumé :

- Coria signifie : l'armée ... de ...

- Sol- = du dieu, ou de la déesse, du soleil.

La racine *Sol- (soleil) a donné le breton Heol (soleil) , par lénition S > H + diphtongue O > EO.

Elle a donné aussi le français : Oeil.

Le sens commun archaïque est probablement : la Lumière, l'éclairage, la possibilité de voir.

JCE