Maponos

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1/21/2022, 9:40 PM Mike C maponos added (from user-submitted name 278292)
1/31/2018, 12:26 AM navvvrisk

Gender Masculine
Usage Celtic Mythology

Meaning & History

Means "great son", from the Celtic root *makwos meaning "son" (Gaulish and Brythonic mapos) combined with the divine or augmentative suffix -on. This was the name of a god of youth worshipped in Gaul and Britain. He was commonly equated with the Greco-Roman god Apollo [1][2][3].