Avellino

Avellino (a town and province of Campania, Italy)


Caserta

la-proper noun

Casērta f sg (genitive Casērtae); first declension

Casērta (canonical feminine singular)
Casērtae (genitive)
Casērta (nominative singular)
Casērtae (genitive singular)
Casērtae (dative singular)
Casērtam (accusative singular)
Casērtā (ablative singular)
Casērta (singular vocative)
Casērtae (locative singular)

[käˈs̬ɛrt̪ä]


Capri

Ultimately from Latin Capreae, said to be from either.
* Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌐𐌓𐌀 (capra)
* Ancient Greek κάπρος (kápros, “wild boar”), who populated the island
* Latin capreae (“goats”), a doublet of the Greek word, with the Romans calling it "Goat Island."

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Capri (an island and town in the region of Campania, Italy)


Taurasi

From Latin Taurasia, Taurasinus, from Oscan *ταυρο- (*tauro-, “bull”), from Proto-Italic *tauros, with the locative ending -asi. It is unclear whether this name is related to the place of the same name Taurasia founded in northern Italy by the Taurini, whose name could also come from the word for bull (via Celtic).


Ercolano

Borrowed from Latin Herculaneum.
* (modern town in Campania): Used since 1969.


Sorrento

From Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.

Sorrento (a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy)


Nola

Nola (nominative singular)
Nolae (genitive singular)
Nolae (dative singular)
Nolam (accusative singular)
Nolā (ablative singular)
Nola (singular vocative)
Nolae (locative singular)

From its earlier name Nuvlana, from Oscan 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌋𐌀 (núula), from 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌄𐌋𐌀 (núuela), from 𐌍𐌞 (nú, “new (city)”) + the suffix -*la.


Capua

A town and municipality in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy.


Aversa

A town in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy


Pozzuoli

From Latin Puteoli, cf. Neapolitan Pezzulo.


Scafati

From Latin scapha ("skiff"), because lots of these boats were used to navigate the near river Sarno.


Battipaglia

A town and comune in Salerno, Campania, Italy.


Battipaglia

Verb-object compound, composed of batti (“to beat, to strike”) + paglia (“straw”).


Eboli

A town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Surrentum

la-proper noun

Surrentum n sg (genitive Surrentī); second declension

Surrentī (genitive)
Surrentum (nominative singular)
Surrentī (genitive singular)
Surrentō (dative singular)
Surrentum (accusative singular)
Surrentō (ablative singular)
Surrentum (singular vocative)
Surrentī (locative singular)

→ Ancient Greek: Σύρρεντον (Súrrhenton)

Italian: Sorrento

→ English: Sorrento

→ French: Sorrente

→ Russian: Сорре́нто (Sorrɛ́nto)

Neapolitan: Surriento

[s̠ʊrˈrɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]

A coastal town in Campania situated on the southern side of the bay of Naples, now Sorrento.


Saviano

A town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Fratte

A town in Salerno, Campania, Italy; a suburb of the city of Salerno.


Futani

Futani (a town and commune of the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy)


𐌀𐌁𐌄𐌋𐌋𐌀

→ Latin: Abella

Virgil calls the city mālifera (“apple-bearing”):
*
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.740:
 […] et quos maliferae despectant moenia Abellae, […]
This has made many scholars connect the toponym to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (“apple”).
Alternatively possibly related to Latin aper (“boar”).

Q

[…] et quos <u>maliferae</u> despectant moenia Abellae, […]

Abella, today's Avella (a town in Campania)


Fontanarosa

From fontana (“fountain”) + rosa (“rose; pink”).

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A town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Torre del Greco

Borrowed from Italian Torre del Greco (literally “Tower of the Greek [man]”).

bor+

A town and comune in the metropolitan city of Naples, in the region of Campania, Italy.


Torre del Greco

Torre del Greco (a town and comune of Naples, Campania)


Torre Annunziata

Borrowed from Italian Torre Annunziata (literally “Tower [of] Our Lady of the Annunciation”).


Torre Annunziata

Literally, “Tower [of] Our Lady of the Annunciation”.

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Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata#English

Torre Annunziata (a town and comune of Naples, Campania)


Campolattaro

A town in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Summonte

From Latin sub (“under”) + montem, accusative of mōns (“mountain”).