Sulla

sulla Sul·la Latin Alternative forms la Sylla Etymology la. It likely referred originally to a personal physical characteristic, like many Latin cognomina: Quintilian (Institutio Oratoria 1.4.25.3) gives it as an example of a name with this kind of etymology (along with la Burrus, la Galba, la Plautus, la Pānsa, la Scaurus). If the vowel was long, the form would be consistent with derivation from la sūra -lus -la calf of the leg diminutive suffix (making it equivalent to la *sūrula); compare la Sūra (agnomen and cognomen). An alternative modern proposal is that it comes from la suīlla Sulla and the Gods: Religion, Politics, and Propaganda in the Autobiography of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Fiona Mary Noble 2014 52 Newcastle University https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10443/2545/1/Noble%2C%20F.M.%202014.pdf (la carō) 'pork (meat)'.1997 Plutarco: Le vite di Lisandro e di Silla Maria Gabriela Angeli Bertinelli 296 Fondazione Lorenzo Valla Plutarch interprets Lucius Cornelius Sulla's cognomen as a reference to his facial complexionThe Parallel Lives Plutarch 2nd century Bernadotte Perrin 1916 web 2018 Bill Thayer Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Sulla https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html (although it was already a traditional name in his family). Proper noun Sulla<1.both> m a cognomen used by the la gens gens Cornelia Cornelia la Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix - Declension Sulla<1.both> Descendants 1 grc Σύλλᾱς See also Cornelii Sullae on Main Page English Wikipedia References Further reading George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, pp. 109110. la cognomina contractions