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Esposito (Italian pronunciation: [eˈspɔːzito]) is an Italian surname. It ranks the fourth most common surname in Italy . [ 1 ] It is especially common in Campania in general and in Naples in particular.
Pages in category "Italian-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,394 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) and their country Albania (Shqipëria) have been identified by many ethnonyms.The native endonym is Shqiptar.The name "Albanians" (Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. [1]
Farina is the Italian word for "flour." Notable people with the surname include: Adele Farina, Australian politician; Amy Farina, American musician; Antonio Farina (fl. 1670s) Italian composer; Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina), Italian automobile stylist; Carlo Farina, Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era
Pascal is a patronymic surname that derives from the personal given name Pascal, from Latin Paschalis, [2] which means "relating to Easter". In France Pascal is especially found in the Southern-Eastern area, in Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, [3] while in Italy Pascal is found in Northern-Western area, in Piedmont, Aosta Valley [4] [5] and the variant De Pascal in Friuli-Venezia ...
Mariano, as a surname, is of Italian, Spanish and Portuguese origin from the personal name Mariano, from the Latin family name Marianus (a derivative of the ancient personal name Marius, of Etruscan origin). In the early Christian era it came to be taken as an adjective derived from Maria, and was associated with the cult of the Virgin Mary. It ...
[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 ...
Schiavone (pronounced [skjaˈvoːne]; feminine Schiavona, plural Schiavoni) is an Italian ethnonym literally meaning "Slavs" in Old Venetian: originally, this term indicated origins in the lands of Dalmatia and Istria (in present-day Slovenia and Croatia), when under the rule of the Republic of Venice. Today it is an Italian surname.