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. The name ''Reo'' is in the Latin dative case, for a Latinized name ''*Reus''.

Name and meaning

Apart from ''Reo Larauco'' (Reus of Larouco) the epithets share an ''-aik-'' element interpreted as an adjectival marker familiar from Lusitanian inscriptions in the dedications to Reo ''Paramaeco'' (Reus of Paramo) ''Amoaego Arcunii'', ''Anabaraeco'', and ''Alabaraico Sulensi''. The first element ''Reo/Reus'' is very similar to the name ''Reue'' appearing on the Lusitanian Cabeço das Fráguas inscription, part of which reads INDI TAVROM IFADEM REVE T..., usually interpreted as "and (''or'' thereafter) a fertile(?) bull for Reue" with the epithet lost. ''Reue'' therefore also seems to be a dative in the Lusitanian form of the name. ''Reue'' appears again on the Ribeira da Venda inscription, including an epithet, as REVE AHARACVI - this time the deity is receiving a sacrifice of ten sheep. Polish scholar K. T. Witczak derives the name from earlier ''* diewo'', suggesting that the Lusitanian language changed the Proto-Indo European ''d'' to ''r'', making Reo a sky deity similar to (and having a name

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with) the Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter, something which may be supported by dedications to him near mountains which also allude to Roman Jupiter; however other authorities such as Blázquez and Villar suggest he may have been a deity linked to rivers and that the name derives from a root meaning a flow or current.

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* * * Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares. "Los dioses soberanos y los ríos en la religión indígena de la Hispania indoeuropea". In: ''Gerión'' n. 18 (2000). pp. 191-212. * Prósper, Blanca María; Liébana, Francisco Villar. "Nuevo epígrafe votivo dedicado a la divinidad Reve en La Coruña". In: ''Palaeohispánica: Revista sobre lenguas y culturas de la Hispania antigua'' Nº. 3, 2003, pp. 271-282. . * Prósper, Blanca María (2010). «REVE ANABARAECO, Divinidad Acuática De Las Burgas (Orense»). In: ''Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua'', n.º 9 (noviembre), 203-14. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i9.224. * Redentor, Armando (2013). "Testemunhos De Reve No Ocidente Brácaro". In: ''Palaeohispanica. Revista Sobre Lenguas Y Culturas De La Hispania Antigua'' n.º 13 (julio) pp. 219-35. https://ifc.dpz.es/ojs/index.php/palaeohispanica/article/view/162. Lusitanian gods Gallaecian gods {{europe-myth-stub

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