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This surname is thought to derive from Latin expositus (Italian esposto, Old Italian or dialect esposito), the past participle of the Latin verb exponere 'to place outside, to expose', and so literally means 'placed outside, exposed'. [4]
Italian toponymic surnames (82 P) Pages in category "Italian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,316 total.
Rossi is an Italian surname, said to be the most common surname in Italy. Due to the diaspora , it is also very common in other countries such as Argentina , Brazil , Canada , France , Switzerland , the United States and Uruguay .
Mariano is a masculine name from the Romance languages, corresponding to the feminine Mariana. It is an Italian, Spanish and Portuguese variant of the Roman Marianus which derived from Marius, and Marius derived from the Roman god Mars (see also Ares) or from the Latin maris "male". [1] [2] [3]
Italian names, with their fixed nome and cognome structure, differ from the ancient Roman naming conventions, which used a tripartite system of given name, gentile name, and hereditary or personal name (or names). The Italian nome is not analogous to the ancient Roman nomen; the Italian nome is the given name (distinct between siblings), while ...
Enzo is an Italian given name derivative of the German name Heinz.It can be used also as the short form for Lorenzo, Vincenzo, Innocenzo, or Fiorenzo.It is most common in the Romance-speaking world, particularly in Italy and Latin America but lately [when?] also in France, Spain and Portugal.
Díaz is a common surname of Spanish origin with multiple meanings in multiple languages. First found in the Kingdom of Castile, where the name originated in the Visigoth period, the name accounts for about 0.17% of the Spanish population, ranking as the 14th-most frequently found surname in both 1999 and 2004.
The name Ivan was the most common masculine given name until 1959, and between 1980 and 1999. [ 9 ] Since the 20th century, it is becoming more popular in the Romance-speaking world; Italian (both the original form and the italianized version, Ivano ), Spanish (as Iván ), and Portuguese (sometimes Ivã ).