Editing Quirinus (section)

== Name ==

===Attestations===
The name of god Quirinus is recorded across Roman sources as ''Curinus'', ''Corinus'', ''Querinus'', ''Queirinus'' and ''QVIRINO'', also as fragmented ''IOVI. CYRIN[O]''.<ref>Dupraz, Emmanuel. ''Les Vestins à l'époque tardo-républicaine. Du nord-osque au latin''. France, Rouen: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre. 2010. pp. 125-126.</ref> The name is also attested as a surname to [[Hercules]] as ''Hercules Quirinus''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lajoye |first1=Patrice |title=Quirinus, un ancien dieu tonnant ? Nouvelles hypothèses sur son étymologie et sa nature primitive |journal=Revue de l'histoire des religions |date=1 June 2010 |volume=227 |issue=227 |pages=175–194 |doi=10.4000/rhr.7573 |jstor=23618183 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

===Etymology===
The name ''Quirīnus'' probably stems from Latin ''[[Quirites|quirīs]]'', the name of Roman citizens in their peacetime function. Since both ''quirīs'' and ''Quirīnus'' are connected with Sabellic immigrants into Rome in ancient legends, it may be a loanword.{{Sfn|de Vaan|2008|p=|pp=509–510}} The meaning "wielder of the spear" (Sabine ''quiris'', 'spear', cf. ''Janus Quirinus''), or a derivation from the Sabine town of [[Cures, Sabinum|Cures]], have been proposed by [[Ovid]] in his ''[[Fasti (poem)|''Fasti'']]'' 2.477-480.<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Quirinus|volume=22}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=April 2020}}

Some scholars have interpreted the name as a contraction of ''*co-viri-nus'' ("god of the assemblymen", cf. [[Curia|''cūria'']] < ''*co-viria''), descending from an earlier ''*co-wironos'', itself from the [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] noun {{lang|ine-x-proto|wihₓrós}} ("man").{{sfn|Ogilvie|1970|p=84, noting a Sabine origin}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Puhvel|first=Jaan|url={{google books |id=zt4nAAAAYAAJ |plainurl=y}} |title=Comparative mythology|date=1987|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0-8018-3413-4|page=289 |author-link=Jaan Puhvel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Matasović|first=Ranko|author-link=Ranko Matasović|date=2010|title=A Reader in Comparative Mythology|url=http://mudrac.ffzg.unizg.hr/~rmatasov/PIE%20Religion.pdf|publisher=University of Zagreb}}</ref> Linguist [[Michiel de Vaan]] argues that this etymology "is not credible phonetically and not very compelling semantically".{{Sfn|de Vaan|2008|pp=509–510}}