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Our Italian Surnames

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Genealogical Publishing Com, 1949 - Reference - 299 pages
Is your name Italian? Do you ever wonder what it means or where it came from? If so, you need look no further. Joseph Fucilla's Our Italian Surnames answers every conceivable question on the subject. In Our Italian Surnames, Dr. Fucilla, the late distinguished professor of Romance languages at Northwestern University, presents the most comprehensive analysis of Italian names ever published. It is also a book which is easy to use & presupposes no knowledge of Italian itself. Our Italian Surnames covers every facet of Italian names & naming practices. It is here we discover, for example, that Bussolari is Italian for compass, Orsini means bear, & Passalacqua stands for butterfly. (Fucilla, incidentally, means gun.) Besides given names & the evolution of Italian surnames, the book contains chapters devoted to pet names, botanical names, geographical names, bird names, insect names, occupational names & more. There is even a separate chapter on surnames deriving from names of spiders, worms, reptiles, amphibians, & mollusks. Written for a popular audience, each chapter of the book is a separate & informative unit in itself. Complete with a list of sources & an index of more than 7500 names, Our Italian Surnames is a monument to Professor Fucilla's lifelong interest in the language & names of Italia.
  

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I have not read Fucilla's OUR ITALIAN SURNAMES, but I would imagine it was a monumental task to compile an extensive list of names. And, of course, I wonder if my own was included : Buttaci!
Salvatore Buttaci, author of FLASHING MY SHORTS

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This is a reprint of a book written in 1949. Dr. Fucilla was born in Italy and a full professor at Northwestern U., who retired in 1965. My copy has a sturdy binding and no frills packaging. The ... Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

GIVEN NAMES
3
THE EVOLUTION OF ITALIAN SURNAMES
12
PET NAMES
33
KINSHIP NAMES
51
COMPOUND NAMES
55
DESIRABLE AND UNDESIRABLE QUALITIES
67
BOTANICAL NAMES
75
TOPOGRAPHICAL NAMES
98
INSECT NAMES
148
ARACHNID WORM REPTILE AMPHIBIAN AND MOLLUSK NAMES
152
OCCUPATIVE NAMES
159
OBJECT NAMES
179
ANATOMICAL NAMES
194
MISCELLANEOUS TYPES OF NAMES
221
THE ANGLICIZATION OF ITALIAN SURNAMES IN THE UNITED STATES
236
DICTIONARIES VOCABULARIES WORDLISTS AND GRAMMARS USED IN THE PRESENT STUDY
244

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
106
BIRD NAMES
115
ANIMAL NAMES
132
FISH NAMES
144
OTHER BOOKS OR ARTICLES CITED
251
INDEX
255
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Our Italian surnames
Our Italian surnames
Joseph Guerin Fucilla
Snippet view - 1949
Our Italian surnames
Our Italian surnames
Joseph Guerin Fucilla
Snippet view - 1949

Common terms and phrases

Abruzzese allude Anatomical Names Anconitano Archivio Glottologico Italiano Archivio Storico Avolio Bergamascan Bianchi Bologna Bolognese Bongioanni Bresciano brese Calabrese Calabria Capo century Chapter child cognomina common compound connected Cremonese denote derive dialect Dialetto Dizionario Emilia English famous fellow Firenze fish font name Forstemann Francesco French Friulano Genoa Genoese Germanic Giovanni give given name Greek head homographs horse indicate individual Italian surnames Italy Jacopo last names Latin Liguria likewise Literally Lombard maker Marchigiano meaning metaphorical Milanese Milano Modenese Naples Neapolitan nicknames Northern Note origin Orlando Furioso Palermo Parmigiano patronymics Pavese perhaps person pet form pet name Piedmont Piedmontese place name plant popular possible province refer Reggio Reggio Emilia Romagnuolo Roman Saggio Sardinian seller short form Sicilian Sicily signifies simpleton Southern Italian Spanish spot names Storia suffix surnames Tarantino term Toponomastica Torino Tuscan Valle Anzasca variant Vastese Venetian Verona Veronese Vocabolario woman word

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Our Italian Surnames | Library Bookwatch | Find Articles at BNET.com
Our Italian Surnames from Library Bookwatch in Arts provided free by Find Articles.
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Italian vital records and those of family, emigration and ...
A 1721: Another book of interest to Italian-American researchers is “Our Italian Surnames,” by Joseph G. Fucilla, first published in 1949 and then reprinted ...
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Book Description - Our Italian Surnames covers every fact of Italian names and naming practices. It is here we discover, for example, that bussolari is ...
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Chieuti-Pages - My Italian Library
Our Italian Surnames by Joseph G. Fucilla. Available at Powell's. Publisher comments: Our Italian Surnames covers every fact of Italian names and naming ...
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Last Name Origins Meaning
Our Italian Surnames. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. 2. Pine, lg The Story of Surnames. Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1967. ...
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JOSEPH FUCILLA (1897-1981) PAPERS, 1918-1981
His book, Our Italian Surnames published in 1949, became quite popular. When Fucilla retired from Northwestern in 1965 he was appointed visiting professor ...
www.library.northwestern.edu/ archives/ findingaids/ fucilla_papers.pdf

February 2000 Internal Letter of Intent
Fucilla in Our Italian Surnames, p. 202 lists Testarossa (red head) and Testanera ... Fucilla's Our Italian Surnames lists the name in a discussion of names ...
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Chapter II
In his book, Our Italian Surnames (1949) Joseph Fucilla states that many Italian family ..... [7] Joseph G. Fucilla, Our Italian Surnames, (Chanler’s, Inc., ...
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fedewa.org Discussion Board
Here is some information about the origin of the Della Vedova name from Our Italian Surnames, by Joseph Gerin Fucilla (1949): Although the bulk of personal ...
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TitleOur Italian Surnames
AuthorJoseph G. Fucilla
Editionreprint
PublisherGenealogical Publishing Com, 1949
ISBN0806311878, 9780806311876
Length299 pages
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