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Surnames of Italian language origin. ... Pages in category "Italian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,331 total.
Cusumano is a Sicilian surname. Variant spellings include Cusumano and Cosimano (a variation found in Western Sicily). Cusumano is the spelling used in western Sicily and Cosimano is found in eastern Sicily. There are also many other variants that conform to a lot of known dialectal conventions of those parts of Sicily.
Russo is a common Southern Italian and Sicilian surname. It is the Southern counterpart of Rossi and comes from a nickname indicating red hair or beard, from russo , russë and russu , from Late Latin russus or rubius , Classical Latin rubeus , "red".
Surnames of Sardinian origin (1 P) T. Italian toponymic surnames (82 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Italian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
The Sicilian people are indigenous to the island of Sicily, which was first populated beginning in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. According to the famous Italian historian Carlo Denina, the origin of the first inhabitants of Sicily is no less obscure than that of the first Italians; however, there is no doubt that a large part of these early individuals traveled to Sicily from Southern ...
Fauci is an Italian surname. It is derived from the Sicilian word for " sickle ", and originated as an occupational surname referring metonymically to sickle makers or people who used sickles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Italy , 151 families bear the surname Fauci, with 67 in Sicily and 35 in Campania . [ 3 ]
[9] [10] Some families, however, opted to retain the possessive portion of their surnames, for instance Lorenzo de' Medici literally means "Lorenzo of the Medici" (de' is a contraction of dei, also meaning "of the"; c.f. The Medicis). Another example of the use of plural suffix in Italian surnames is Manieri which is the plural form of Mainiero ...
Its dialectal meaning is "skinny and ugly" (magro e brutto in Italian), indicating that the name derives from a physical appellation of people, although that is only a hypothesis. The Eastern Alpine dialect is also spoken in parts of Sicily , having been introduced by the Vikings at the time of the Norman Conquest (Viking).