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Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English

abbreviation of Gorizia: a province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


PE

abbreviation of Pescara: a city and province of Abruzzo, Italy


CH

abbreviation of Chieti: a city and province of Abruzzo, Italy


CL

abbreviation of Caltanissetta: a city and province of Sicily, Italy


CO

abbreviation of Como: a province of Lombardy, Italy


MI

abbreviation of Milano (= Milan): a city and metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy


PS

abbreviation of Pesaro: a city in the Marche region, Italy


Toscana

From Late Latin (terra) Tuscāna (“the land of the Etruscans”), ultimately from tuscus (“Etruscan”).

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administrative region
administrative region

Tuscany (an administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna)


Liguria

From Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).

Liguria (an administrative region of northwest Italy)


Palermo

English: Palermo

Ottoman Turkish: پالرمو (Palermo)

Turkish: Palermo

Palermo (the capital city and province of Sicily, Italy)


Verona

→ English: Verona

Verona (a city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy)

Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)


Abruzzo

→ English: Abruzzo

→ Portuguese: Abruzzo

From the Late Latin or Medieval Latin name of the location, Aprutium, possibly from Praetūtium, from the name of the people Praetūtiī.

Abruzzo (an administrative region in central Italy)


Valle d'Aosta

la Valle d'Aosta (canonical feminine)
Val d'Aosta (alternative colloquial)

Aosta Valley
Aosta Valley#English:_Q1222

Aosta Valley (an autonomous region of northwestern Italy, with a significant fraction of the population speaking Franco-Provençal)

Valle d'Aosta, Aosta (a former province of the Aosta Valley autonomous region, consisting of the whole region; abolished in 1945)


Basilicata

Basilicata (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Calabria

Calabria (a peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy)


Campania

Campania (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Emilia-Romagna

From the former regions Emilia and Romagna, from Latin (via) Aemilia, the Roman road connecting Rome to northern Italy, named after the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Romania, the name of the Eastern Roman Empire applied to Ravenna by the Lombards after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and in the days when Ravenna was a city of the east.

Emilia-Romagna (an administrative region of northern Italy)


Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English:_Q1250

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (an autonomous region in northern Italy)


Marche

→ Dutch: Marken (calque)

→ Polish: Marche

Marche (an administrative region in central Italy)


Molise

Adaptation of de Moulins, the name of the noble french family ruling over the area from the XI to the XII century originated in Moulins-la-Marche, ultimately from Latin molinus.

Molise (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Trentino-Alto Adige

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English:_Q1237

Trentino-Alto Adige (an autonomous region of northern Italy)


Umbria

After the Umbri, an ancient Italic tribe inhabiting the region.

Umbria (an administrative region in central Italy)


Veneto

Veneto (an administrative region of northern Italy, roughly corresponding to the ancient Venetia)


Alessandria

Alessandria (a city and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Cuneo

From Latin cuneus (“wedge”) (whence cuneo and conio), after the shape of the city, which is at the confluence of two rivers. Cognate to Piedmontese Coni.


Novara

Novara (a town and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Agrigento

Borrowed from Latin Agrigentum, possibly from the root words ager (“field”) and gēns (“clan, kin”), but more likely to be a corruption of Ancient Greek Ἀκράγᾰντᾰ (Akrágăntă), from ἄκρος (ákros, “at the edge”). Cognate to Sicilian Girgenti.

Agrigento (a province and city in Sicily, Italy)


Ancona

From Latin Ancōna, from ancōn (“curve, elbow”), due to the form of the cape where the city was founded.

Ancona (a port city and comune, the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region of Marche, Italy)


Aosta

Ultimately from the Latin name of the location, Augusta Praetōria Salassōrum. Cognate with French Aoste, Franco-Provençal Outa, Sicilian Agusta.

Aosta (the capital city of Aosta Valley, Italy)

Aosta (the sole province of Valle d'Aosta, Italy)


Arezzo

From Latin Ārrētium, from Etruscan 𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌌 (aritim).

Arezzo (a city and province of Tuscany, Italy)


Ascoli Piceno

Ascoli Piceno (a town and province of Italy)


Benevento

Benevento (a province of Campania, Italy)

Benevento (the capital city of the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy)


Bergamo

Bergamo (a city and province of Lombardy, Italy)


Biella

First appears as Bugella in Medieval Latin during the early 9th century.

Biella (a city and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Bologna

From Latin Bonōnia, ultimately from Celtic.

Bologna (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Bologna (the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Bolzano

From earlier Bolgiano, from Vulgar Latin Bauzana, Bauzanum, from earlier Bautianum, Baudianum, from Bautius, Baudius, a latinization of a Celtic personal name. Cognate with German Bozen, which is derived from a variant Vulgar Latin form (Pauzana, Pozana).

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

Bolzano (the provincial capital of South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Brescia

From Lombard Brèsa, Latin Brixia, probably from a Gaulish/Celtic (Cisalpine) root meaning "hill".

Brescia (the capital city of Brescia province, Lombardy, Italy)


Brindisi

From Latin Brundisium, from Ancient Greek Βρεντέσιον (Brentésion), said to be from the Messapic word for the head of a male deer, possibly based on the shape of the port. Compare Proto-Albanian *brina (Albanian bri) and *drani (Albanian dre).

Brindisi (a city and province of Apulia, Italy)


Cagliari

From Latin Caralis, ultimately of Phoenician origin.

Cagliari (a province of Sardinia, Italy)

Cagliari (a port city and municipality, the capital of the province of Cagliari and of Sardinia as a whole)


Caltanissetta

From the Arabic name in antiquity, قَلْعَة النِسَاء (qalʕa an-nisāʔ, “Fort of the Women”).

Caltanissetta (a city and province of Sicily, Italy)


Campobasso

Morphologically from campo (“field”) + basso (“low”), however the original name in Medieval Latin was Campus Vassorum, indicating that the city was a seat of vassals.

Campobasso (the capital city and province of Molise, Italy)


Caserta

From Medieval Latin casa irta (“impregnable house”), referring to its elevation in relation to the surrounding area.

Caserta (the capital of Caserta province, Campania, Italy)


Catania

Named by the indigenous Sicel people; from Sicel katane (“grater, flaying knife, skinning place; crude tool apt to pare”) (compare Ancient Greek κατάνη (katánē)). The name was adopted by Greek settlers, survived Hellenization and passed into Roman rule.

Catania (a metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy)

Catania (the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy)


Catanzaro

From Latin Catanciarium, from the earlier Catacium, from the original Ancient Greek name Katantza'rion, from Καταρτάριοι (Katartárioi, “silk spinners”), as the town was known for its silk.

Catanzaro (the capital city and province of Calabria, Italy)


Chieti

Chieti (the capital city of the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy)


Como

Como (a city, the capital of Como province, Lombardy)


Cosenza

From Latin Cōnsentia, Cosentia, from consentia.

Cosenza (a town and province of Calabria, Italy)


Cremona

Cremona (a province and city in Lombardy, Italy)


Crotone

Learned from Latin Crotōn or Crotō, ultimately from Ancient Greek Κρότων (Krótōn).
Historically known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when the ancient spelling was restored and imposed, because of the Fascist toponymical policies. It is still called Cutrona in the local Sicilian-calabrian dialect. Compare the surname Cutrona, which is borrowed from the Sicilian Cutrona.

Crotone (a city and comune, the capital of the province of Crotone, Calabria, Italy)


Enna

From Latin Henna or Haenna, of obscure origin. Originally known as Castrogiovanni from the local Sicilian Castrugiuvanni, from the Arabic name for it, قَصْر يَانِيّ (qaṣr yāniyy, “castle of John”), actually a corruption of Latin castrum ("fort") and Henna. The name was changed in 1927 under Mussolini.


Foggia

From Latin Fodia, later form of Fovea (“small pit”). See fovea.

a province of Apulia, Italy, around the city.


Forli

alternative form of Forlì: the capital city of the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Frosinone

Frosinone (a city, the provincial capital of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy)


Gorizia

Gorizia (a province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, formally known as a regional decentralization entity)

Gorizia (a town and comune, the capital of Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy)


Imperia

a town and province on the coast of Liguria, Italy


Isernia

Isernia (a town and province of Molise, Italy)


L'Aquila

L'Aquila (the capital city and province of Abruzzo, Italy)

L'Aquila (the capital city of L'Aquila province, Italy)


La Spezia

From Latin Spedia, plus the definite article.

La Spezia (a province and city in Liguria, Italy)


Lecce

Evolution of the original Roman names, Latin Licea, Litium (2nd century CE), and Lupiae (3rd century BCE).

Lecce (a city and province of Apulia, Italy)


Lecco

From Latin Leucum, of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from or related to leux (“shining, white”).


Livorno

From Old Italian Legorno, from Latin Liburnus, from Liburnī, name of the ancient population of Liburnians.

Livorno (a province and city in Tuscany, Italy)


Lodi

Was known in Latin in Roman times as Laus Pompeia or Laus Nova, from laus (“praise”) (genitive laudis), whence lode came in Italian.


Lucca

Lucca (the capital city of the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy)


Lao

From Latin Laus, from Ancient Greek Λαός (Laós), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”), common in hydronyms. The first vowel may have derived from an O-grade or from the zero-grade, depending on the language it was borrowed through.


Macerata

Probably from macerie (“rubble”), referring to the city's rebuilding after the Goths' destruction of Ricina.


Messina

English: Messina

→ Ottoman Turkish: مسینه (mesine)

Turkish: misina

From Latin Messāna, from Ancient Greek Μεσσήνη (Messḗnē, “Messene”), named by a Greek tyrant after the site of Ancient Messene in Peloponnese, Greece.

Messina (a city and province of Sicily, Italy)


Modena

From Latin Mutina, from Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌕𐌍𐌀 (mutna).

Modena (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Modena (a city in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Nuoro

Borrowed from Sardinian Nùgoro. Cognate with Sicilian Nùguru.

Nuoro (a town and province of Sardinia, Italy)


Oristano

From Latin Aristianis, later Aristanis (Byzantine Greek Αριστάνις (Aristánis)).

Oristano (a province of Sardinia, Italy)

Oristano (the capital city of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy)


Pavia

Pavia (the capital city of the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy)


Perugia

Perugia (the capital city and province of Umbria, Italy)


Pescara

From Latin Piscaria (“abounding with fish”); see piscis. Former name Aternum.

Pescara (the capital city of the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy)


Piacenza

From the Latin Placentia, from placentia < placēns (“pleasing, welcoming”).


Pistoia

Pistoia (the capital city of the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy)


Pordenone

Pordenone (a province of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy)

Pordenone (the capital city of the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy)


Potenza

From Latin Potentia, from potentia < potens.

Potenza (a province of Basilicata, Italy)

Potenza (a city, the provincial capital, a in Potenza, and regional capital of Basilicata, Italy)


Prato

Prato (the capital city of the province of Prato, Tuscany, Italy)


Ragusa

Ragusa (a town and province of Sicily, Italy)


Ravenna

From Latin Ravenna, possibly of Etruscan origin.


Rieti

Borrowed from Latin Reāte, possibly ultimately via Proto-Italic *reia-te- from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to flow”).

Rieti (the capital city of the province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy)


Rimini

Rimini (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Rimini (a resort city, the capital of the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Rovigo

Rovigo (a province and town in Veneto, Italy)


Salerno

From Latin Salernum, from one of the city's Etruscan names.

Salerno (a city and province of Campania, Italy)


Sassari

Sassari (a city and commune, the capital city of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)


Savona

From Latin Savōnem f, with the ending feminized to /-a/.

Savona (the capital city of the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy)


Sondrio

Sondrio (a town and province of Lombardy, Italy)


Taranto

From Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), probably from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), which also yields Albanian dru (“wood, tree”).


Teramo

Ultimately from the Latin name of the site, Interamnia Praetutorium (“city of the Praetutii tribe between two rivers”) or Interamnium, later becoming Teramum.

Teramo (the capital city of the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy)


Terni

From Latin Interamna Nahars (literally “between rivers”), referring to the Nera and Tiber. See also Ancient Greek Ἰντέραμνα (Intéramna).

Terni (the capital city of the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy)


Trapani

Ultimately from Latin Drepanum, Drepanon, Ancient Greek Δρέπανον (Drépanon, “sickle”), a reference to the curving shape of its harbor.

Trapani (the capital city of the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy)


Trento

Inherited from Latin Tridentum (literally “three teeth”), named for the three hills that surround the city.

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Trento (a city, the capital of the province of Trentino and the region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)

(rare) Trentino (a province of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Treviso

From Latin Tarvisium, Tarvisum, from the name of the Celtic tribe, Taurusci.

Treviso (a town and province of Veneto, Italy)


Trieste

From Latin Tergeste, probably of Venetic origin. The first element, terg may have meant "market" (thus cognate to Albanian treg, Proto-Slavic *tъrgъ, Old Norse torg), and the second element, -est, may have meant "place".


Udine

First mentioned as Utinum in Medieval Latin in the 10th century.

a city in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy


Varese

Ultimately from Latin Baretium, Varetium, Varesium, borrowed via Lombard.

Varese (the capital city of the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy)


Vercelli

Vercelli (a town and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Vicenza

From the Latin Vīcentia, a form of Vīcētia.


Viterbo

Viterbo (a province and town in Lazio, Italy)


Ventimiglia

a town in the province of Imperia, Liguria, Italy


Ostia

English: Ostia


Napoli

From Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”).

Naples (a province and capital city of Campania, Italy)


Ticino

Ticino (a left tributary of the Po in Switzerland and Italy)


Genova

From Latin Genua, possibly from the Ancient Ligurian word for knee. Compare also Latin genu; alternatively it may derive ultimately from a Celtic root *genu-, *genawa (“mouth (i.e. estuary”), making it possibly akin to the root of Geneva as well.

et si voç di qu'il demora a ce savoir en celles deverses parties et provences bien .xxvi. anç. Le quel puis, demorant en la charchre de Jene, fist retraire toutes cestes chouses a messire Rustaciaus de Pise

c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as chapter 1, in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:

And I will also tell you that he [Marco Polo] lived in those lands for thirty-six whole years; then he, being in the prison of Genoa, had all these things written down by sir Rustichello da Pisa

Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)

Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)


CN

abbreviation of Cuneo: a province of the Piedmont region, Italy


AQ

abbreviation of Aquila and L'Aquila: the capital city of the Abruzzo region, Italy


Puglia

Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)


Lazio

Lazio (an administrative region of Italy, situated in the central peninsular section of the country with Rome as its capital)

(historical) Latium (a historical region of central Italy, in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire)


Sicilia

→ Albanian: Sicila

→ Japanese: シチリア

→ Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)

→ Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا

Turkish: Sicilya

Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)


LC

abbreviation of Lecco: a city in the Lombardy region, Italy


Lombardia

From Latin Langobardia, named after Langobards ("long beards"), a Germanic tribe that invaded the region along with much of northern Apennine Peninsula in 6th century.

Lombardy (an administrative region in northern Italy, where its capital and the largest city Milan is founded in the Po Valley)


Milano

From Latin Mediōlānum, possibly of Gaulish origin.

Milan (the capital city of Lombardy, Italy)

Milan (a metropolitan city of Lombardy, Italy)


Piemonte

Inherited from Latin Pedemontium (literally “at the foot of mountains”) or Pedemontis, from pēs (“foot”) and mōns (“mountain”).

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Piedmont (an administrative region in the north of Italy)


Sardegna

→ French: Sardaigne

→ Sardinian: Sardigna

Sardinia (an island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea)


NO

abbreviation of Novara: a city in the Piedmont region, Italy


Torino

→ Translingual: Torino

→ English: Torino

→ Danish: Torino

→ Estonian: Torino

→ Finnish: Torino

→ Japanese: トリノ

→ Turkish: Torino

From the Roman name, Latin Augusta Iulia Taurinorum, ultimately from the name of the Taurini, a Celtic-Ancient Ligurian tribe.

Turin (the capital city of Piedmont, Italy)

Turin (a metropolitan city of Piedmont, Italy)


Firenze

→ Danish: Firenze

→ Finnish: Firenze

→ Japanese: フィレンツェ (Firentse)

→ Korean: 피렌체 (Pirenche)

From Old Italian Fiorenze, from Latin Flōrentiae, locative of Flōrentia. Cf. the alternative obsolete form Fiorenza, from the accusative.

Con ciò sia cosa che per gli nostri antichi Fiorentini poche e nonn-ordinate memorie si truovino di fatti passati della nostra città di Firenze, […], io Giovanni cittadino di Firenze, considerando la nobiltà e grandezza della nostra città a’ nostri presenti tempi, mi pare che si convegna di raccontare e fare memoria dell’origine e cominciamento di così famosa città

1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo [First Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 1:

Since few and disorderly memories are found, among our oldest Florentines, of past events of our city Florence, I – Giovanni, citizen of Florence –, considering our city's nobility and greatness at the present time, believe it's appropriate to tell and remember the origin and the beginning of such a famous city.

Florence (the capital city of Tuscany, Italy)

Florence (a metropolitan city of Tuscany, Italy)


Brenna

Possibly of Celtic origin, as Celts were known to inhabit the area before Romans. The meaning is unclear, but compare Proto-Celtic *branos (“crow”), which is also the source of the Latin name Brennus.

a village in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Venezia

Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)

Venice (a metropolitan city of Veneto, Italy)


Asiago

a town near Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy


Bari

From Latin Bārium, probably from Messapic; an appellative akin to *bauria, *burion (“house”), from Proto-Indo-European **bʰuH-ros (“dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Cognate with English bower.

Bari (the capital city and province of Apulia, Italy)


Castello

Castello (a district (sestiere) of Venice, Veneto, Italy)


Garda

a town in Verona, Veneto, Italy, on the shore of Lake Garda


Magenta

a town in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Ora

English: Ora

Auer (a commune of Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy)


Parma

From Latin Parma, from Etruscan 𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌌𐌄 (parme).


Pisa

From Latin Pīsae, also known as the colony of Portus Pisanus in Roman times. The place name is ultimately of Etruscan origin, though of unknown meaning.

Pisa (a city and province of Tuscany, Italy)


Po

Ultimately from Latin Padus, perhaps borrowed in this form from some Gallo-Italic variety to judge by the loss of /-d-/. On the other hand, should one assume that said loss occurred (irregularly) in Tuscany, the sound-changes from that point onward would be fairly straightforward: /ˈpa.o/ > /ˈpaw/ > /ˈpɔ/.


Sora

a large town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Vinci

a small town in Tuscany, nearby which Leonardo da Vinci was born


GE

abbreviation of Genova (= Genoa): a city and metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy


Adige

From Latin Athesem, presumably borrowed via Gallo-Italic.


Paola

a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Chianti

Through Latin from the Etruscan name 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante). It is thought that the Etruscans introduced viticulture to the area.

Chianti (a hilly geographic region in central Tuscany, Italy, famous for red wines)


Padova

Ultimately from Latin Patavium, which may have had a variant Vulgar Latin form *Patava/*Pataua, later monophthongized to Padoa in the local Venetan language, and transcribed as Padua in Medieval Latin; this then became Padova in the Tuscan dialect (and hence later Italian) after labialization of the 'u'.

Padua (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)


Miranda

From Latin mīranda, feminine declension of mīrandus (“which is to be wondered at”), perhaps in relation to a strategic viewpoint.

a village in the province of Isernia, Molise, Italy


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)


Amatrice

Use of the name dates back to the late 15ᵗʰ century, from earlier Matrice, likely through a rebracketing of la Matrice.

Vſcεndω fuor per un secrεtω bucω, / Che cωn la scorta della buona Euloga / Vi cωndurrá vicinω a l’Amatrice, / Ωve la voﬆra cωmpagnia v’aspεtta

1548 May, Gian Giorgio Trissino, “Vigesimoquarto libro [Twenty-fourth book]”, in L'Italia liberata da' Gothi [Italy freed from the Goths], Rome: Valerio e Luigi Dorici, page 124:

Coming out of a secret hole, which, with the escort of the good Euloga, will lead you nearby Amatrice, where your company awaits

Poſcia dalla Valle Caﬅellana […] ſi arriua al nobile caﬅello Amatrice poﬅo ſotto la fontana del Tronto

1550, Leandro Alberti, “Abruzzo - duodecima regione [Abruzzo - twelfth region]”, in Descrittione di tutta Italia [Description of all of Italy], Venice: Pietro dei Nicolini da Sabbio, published 1551, page 219:

Afterwards, from Valle Castellana, one arrives to the noble borough of Amatrice, located below the source of the Tronto

aggiunto di colpo, e preſo per traslato dalla robuﬅezza di que’ dell’Amatrice, luogo del noﬅro Abruzzo, donde vengono a noi, ed altrove de’ validi tagliatori di boſchi, che dan colpi di accettate formidali, onde andarono in prov. i colpi amatriciani

1789, “Matresciano”, in Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano [Vocabulary of the words of the Neapolitan dialect], volume 1, Naples: Giuseppe Maria Porcelli, page 220:

Said of a strike, and taken as a transferred sense from the strength of those of Amatrice, a place in our Abruzzo, whence—here and elsewhere—come skilled lumberjacks, who deliver formidable blows with the axe, whence the strikes of Amatrice became proverbial

a small town in Rieti, Lazio, also used absolutely as l'Amatrice


Nettuno

planets of the Solar System: pianeti del sistema solare: Mercurio · Venere · Terra · Marte · Giove · Saturno · Urano · Nettuno [edit]

a small coastal town in Lazio, Italy, site of an Allied landing during World War II


Emilia

(historical) Emilia (a historical region of Italy, approximately coterminous with modern Emilia-Romagna)


Parioli

it-proper noun

Parioli m pl or m (sometimes plural only, in variation)

From Monti Parioli, three hills that the district was built on. Itself of uncertain origin, possibly from Latin paries (“wall”) (whence Italian parete), in reference to the steep slope the San Valentino hill makes facing Via Flaminia.

essere dei Parioli / essere di Parioli


Adria

Adria (a town and comune of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy, situated on the site of an Etruscan city of the same name)


Cefalù

Inherited from Latin Cephaloedium, from Ancient Greek Κεφαλοίδιον (Kephaloídion).

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Cefalù (a city in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy)


Arborio

Most likely linked to Latin arboreus (“wooden, tree-like”). Compare Italian arboreo.

a town in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy, famous for its rice production


Montepulciano

monte + pulciano, personal name, from dialectal Pulsa, from Latin publicianus, variant of publicius, from publicus and ultimately Etruscan.


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).


Barbaresco

a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont


Barolo

Possibly from a Celtic compound meaning “low place”. Cognate with Piedmontese Bareul.


Fano

a coastal town in Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy


Etna

Borrowed from Latin Aetna, from either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aith-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).


Roma

→ Burmese: ရောမ (rau:ma.)

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perhaps via Portuguese <i class="Latn mention" lang="pt">Roma</i>

→ Japanese: ローマ (Rōma) (perhaps via Portuguese Roma)

→ Korean: 로마 (roma)

Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)

Rome (a metropolitan city of Lazio, Italy)

Rome (a former province of Lazio, Italy)


Mantova

From Latin Mantua, from Etruscan *𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌈𐌅𐌀 (*manθva).

Mantua (a city and province of Lombardy, Italy)


Scilla

From Latin Scylla, from Ancient Greek Σκύλλα (Skúlla).

a town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Barcellona

Barcelona (a province of Catania, Italy)


Grotte

From Vulgar Latin gruptae, from Latin cryptae, through the Sicilian Grutti.

a town and comune of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Alto Adige

From alto (“high, tall”) + Adige (“Adige”), in relation to the river Adige and its surrounding mountainous area, Tyrol.

South Tyrol (a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province of the Trentino-Alto Adige region in north-east Italy; until 1919 part of Austria, since 1972 under a special autonomy statute)


Faenza

From Latin Faventia, from faventia < favens.

a town in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, noted for its majolica pottery


Tirolo

a small town in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige


Savoia

Through an intermediate *Sabau(d)ja, from Latin Sabaudia.

(historical) Savoy (a historical region shared between the modern countries of France, Italy and Switzerland)

(historical) Savoy (a former duchy existing from 1416 to 1847, whose maximal extent included parts of modern southeastern France, northwestern Italy, and southwestern Switzerland; in full, Duchy of Savoy)


Rovereto

Rovereto (a city in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Donato

Early saint's name from Latin Donātus, meaning "given" (as by God).


Menfi

Inherited from Latin Memphis. Compare Sicilian Mènfrici.


Lazzaro

Motta San Giovanni
Motta San Giovanni#English

a hamlet in the comune of Motta San Giovanni, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Vesuvio

Vesuvius (a volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy)


Siracusa

→ Armenian: Սիրակուզա (Sirakuza)

→ Georgian: სირაკუზა (siraḳuza)

desc

→ Japanese: シラクサ (Shirakusa), シラクーザ (Shirakūza)

From Latin Syrācūsae, from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai). Doublet of Siragusa and Syracuse.

Syracuse (a port, the capital city of the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)


Elba

Elba (an Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago off the west coast of Italy, administratively part of Tuscany; between the Italian coast and Corsica)


Romagna

From Latin Romania, originally "land inhabited by Romans."

a historic region in northern Italy that formed part of modern Emilia-Romagna


Corleone

From Sicilian Cunigghiuni or Curliuni, from Aragonese Coriglione or Conillon, from Norman Coraigliòn, from Latin Curilionum, from Arabic قُرْلِيُون (qurliyūn), from Ancient Greek Κουρουλλουνέ (Kouroullouné). Alternatively from Latin *Corleōne, from cor (“heart”) + leōnis (“of the lion”).

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Κουρουλλουνέ

a small town in Sicily, home of an infamous Mafia family


Friuli

→ English: Friuli

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli (a region in northeastern Italy, part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia)


Casale Monferrato

a small town in the province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy


Lampedusa

From Latin Lopadusa, from Ancient Greek Λοπαδοῦσσα (Lopadoûssa). Compare Sicilian Lampidusa.

Lampedusa (the largest of the Pelagie Islands)


Ercolano

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

Herculaneum (a historical town in Italy)


Reggio Calabria

From the earlier Old Italian Reggio, from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion). The city became known as Reggio Calabria after the Italian Unification.

Reggio Calabria (a historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy)

Reggio Calabria (a city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy)


Reggio Emilia

a city and province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Forlì

From Latin Forum Līviī, borrowed via Romagnol.

Forli (the capital city of the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Aspromonte

Compound of aspro (“rugged”) + monte (“mountain”). The first element could also derive from Greek άσπρος (áspros, “white”), since Griko language is attested in Calabria.

com+

a mountain in Calabria, which overlooks the city of Reggio Calabria


Otranto

From Latin Hydruntum, from Ancient Greek Ὑδροῦς (Hudroûs).

a town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Carso

Borrowed from German der Karst, name of a limestone region in Slovenia.

Karst (a mountainous karst plateau in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia; in full, Karst Plateau)


Gubbio

Inherited from Latin Iguvium, Eugubium, from Umbrian.


EUR

Originally an abbreviation for Esposizione Universale Roma, for which the town was constructed.


Bergamasco

From bergamasco (“of or related to Bergamo”).


Chioggia

From Latin Clodia (the settlement Clodia Maior or Fossa Clodia).


Livia

From Latin Līvia, feminine form of Līvius.

(historical) former name of Forli, the capital city of the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Caudium

an ancient town on the Appian Way between Benevento and Capua in modern Campania region, Italy


Urbe

Alternative letter form of urbe (“city”), borrowed from Latin urbem, which commonly referred to Rome.

[[w:Rome Urbe Airport|Aeroporto dell'Urbe]]


Urbe

From the river Orba, later reanalyzed as coming from Latin urbem, as above.


Massa

Massa Lubrense
Massa d'Albe
Massa di Somma

* The town is from Latin Massa.
* The surname is from several places such as Massa Lubrense or Massa di Somma or Massa d'Albe, all from Latin massa (“lump, pile”).


Filadelfia

Filadelfia (a town and municipality of the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy)


Gianicolo

From Latin (mōns or collis) Iāniculum (“Janiculum hill”).


Jesolo

Jesolo (a seaside resort town and comune on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in the Veneto region, Italy, north of Venice)


Mineo

a town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Lipari

Lipari (a municipality of the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy)


Lipari

the largest of the Aeolian islands off the coast of Sicily, Italy


Carrara

From the Roman name, derived from Latin Carrariae (“quarries”), from a Celtic word (likely Ligurian) *kar (“stone”).

a town in Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, famous for its marble quarries


Monferrato

Seemingly from Latin Mōns Ferrātus (literally “mountain with iron”).

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Montferrat (a historical region of Piedmont, Italy)


Norcia

a town in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy


Orvieto

From Latin Urbs Vetus (literally “old city”).


Alfonsine

Alfonsine (a commune of the Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Alghero

Unclear origin. Usually thought to derive from Medieval Latin Aleguerium (literally “stagnation of seaweed”) or Sardinian S'Alighèra, from aliga (“seaweed; rubbish”) + -era, but either way from Latin alga (“seaweed”), from Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, slimy”).

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Alghero (a city and port town in Sardinia, Italy)


Sorrento

From Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.

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


Sud-Tirolo

alternative spelling of Sud Tirolo: South Tyrol (a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province of the Trentino-Alto Adige region in north-east Italy; until 1919 part of Austria, since 1972 under a special autonomy statute)


Sud Tirolo

Sud-Tirolo (alternative)
Sudtirolo (alternative)

(rare) South Tyrol (a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province of the Trentino-Alto Adige region in north-east Italy; until 1919 part of Austria, since 1972 under a special autonomy statute)


Tarquinia

From Latin Tarquinii, from Etruscan 𐌕𐌀𐌓𐌖𐌗𐌍𐌀 (taruxna).


Abano Terme

From Aponus, an ancient venetian deity related to thermal waters.


Ausonia

(historical) an ancient region of Italy, roughly corresponding with modern Campania


Logudoro

From Sardinian; the place name means "golden place," corresponding to logu (“place”) (Italian luogo) + d'oro (“gold”).

a region in northern Sardinia autonomous region


Pantelleria

From Sicilian Pantiddirìa, from Arabic بِنْتُ الرِّياح (bintu ar-riyāḥ, “daugther of the winds”), perhaps through a dialectal Arabic form with a genitive particle (equivalent to a theoretical Maltese *bint tar-rjieħ, *bint tal-irjieħ). The island was Arabic-speaking until the 18th century. Its older Latin name was Cossura.

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بِنْتُ الرِّياح


Schio

Schio (a town in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)


Montecristo

→ English: Montecristo

→ French: Montecristo

Isola di Montecristo
Isola di Montecristo#English

Montecristo (an island of Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea; in full, Isola di Montecristo)


Città Eterna

Eternal City (nickname for Rome: the capital of Italy)


Bergoglio

a village in Piedmont, Italy near Alessandria


Acquacheta

Acquacheta (a river that flows through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Acri

Acri (a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy)


Caprona

a village in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, near Vicopisano


Cervia

a town in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Corneto

a village in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy, near Acquasanta Terme


Corniglia

a small coastal town in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy


Ellera

a small town in Perugia, Umbria, situated adjacent to Chiugiana


Chiugiana

a small town in Perugia, Umbria, situated adjacent to Ellera


Fiesole

From Latin Faesulae, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌉𐌐𐌔𐌖𐌋 (vipsul).

a small town in Tuscany, Italy near Florence


Gaeta

→ English: Gaeta

→ French: Gaète, Gaëte

→ Greek: Γκαέτα (Gkaéta)

→ Sicilian: Gaeta

From Latin Caiēta, from the Ancient Greek Καιήτη (Kaiḗtē).

a coastal town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Gallura

Gallura (a cultural region and former state in northeast Sardinia)


Gaville

a village in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, near Figline Valdarno


Mongibello

Borrowed from Sicilian Muncibbeḍḍu. By folk etymology, believed to be a blend of monte + bello.


Montefeltro

a historic region in central Italy that occupied parts of present-day Marche, Emilia-Romagna, Toscana and San Marino


Pratovecchio

From prato (“meadow”) + vecchio (“old, ancient”).


Sanza

a town in the province of Salerno, Campania


San Donà di Piave

a town in Venice, Veneto, Italy on the river Piave


Piave

a river in Veneto that was the scene of heavy fighting in World War I


Cadore

Via Ladin, from Latin Catubrium, from the name of a Gaulish tribe, the Catubrini.

a historic region of Veneto situated in the Dolomites near Belluno


Merano

a town in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy near Bolzano


Asola

a small town in Lombardy, Italy near Mantua


Langhe

Borrowed from Piedmontese langa (“hill”), of uncertain origin; possibly related to the Iberian settlement Langobriga in present-day Portugal, and Lamboglia derives both from the non-Indo-European substrate (possibly Iberian) base *lanka (“depression, valley”), later "hilly area."

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Langhe (a hilly area of Piedmont, Italy)


Ampezzo

a region of the Dolomites in the province of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Anzio

a small coastal town in Lazio, Italy, site of a crucial Allied landing during World War II


Asinara

a small island off the coast of Sardinia


Barletta

a small city in Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Barletta-Andria-Trani

a province of Apulia, Italy having Barletta, Andria and Trani as its three capoluoghi


Belfiore

Borrowed from Venetan Belfior. Doublet of Bellofiore, which is from Sicilian Beḍḍuciuri.


Bobbio

a small town in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Bolsena

From Latin Volsĭ́nĭī, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌋𐌆𐌍𐌀 (velzna).


Bracciano

a hilltop town in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy


Caltagirone

The first part is undoubtedly from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa, “fortress, castle”), while the second one could either derive from غِيرَان (ḡīrān), plural of غَار (ḡār, “cave, cavern”), or from خِنْزِير (ḵinzīr, “pig, swine, hog”).


Cancellara

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Cannizzaro

Italianized form of Sicilian Cannizzaru, from Sicilian cannizzaru (“related to somewhere or someone related to reeds or wattle”), from cannizzu (“wattle”), from canna. The town in the province of Catania was named after the surname, when a local family bought the place as a personal fief.

a small town in Catania, Sicily, Aci Castello


Caravaggio

The painter was named after his family's place of origin.


Casale

(often in combination) any of several small towns in Italy


Ceri

a village in Rome, Lazio, Italy, near Cerveteri


Chiavenna

a town in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Ciampino

a city in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region, Italy, the site of one of Rome's airports

it:Aeroporto di Roma-Ciampino
it:Ciampino


Cortemaggiore

a small town in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna


Cortina

Cortina d'Ampezzo
w:it:Cortina d'Ampezzo

Cortina d'Ampezzo (a small alpine town in Belluno, Veneto, Italy)


Cortona

From Latin Cortōna, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌓𐌕𐌖𐌍 (curtun).


Doglio

a village in Perugia, Italy that was the scene of a battle between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines


Fiumicino

it:Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino
it:Fiumicino


Paestum

Paestum (ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, in modern Campania, Italy)


Grottaferrata

Abbazia di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
it:Grottaferrata

From the name of the 11th-century Italo-Greek monastery Abbazia di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, calque of Latin Abbatia Beatissimae Mariae Cryptaeferratae, a compound of crypta (“crypt”) + ferrata (“ironbound”), from the double iron bars over the windows of an early oratorio at the site, formerly a Roman tomb.

calque

a town in Roma, Lazio, Italy, near the site of ancient Tusculum


Ischia

The Campanian island is first attested as Early Medieval Latin Iscla, likely from Latin īnsula (“island”).

Ischia (a town and comune on the island of Ischia, in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy)

Ischia di Castro
Ischia di Castro#Italian

Ischia (a town and comune of Lazio, Italy; in full, Ischia di Castro)


Larderello

a village in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, near Pomarance


Laterza

a town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy


Vanzago

a town in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Mentana

a town in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy


Modugno

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Monreale

From Latin mōns rēgālis (literally “royal mountain”).


Monza

Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.

2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport (in English):

a city in Lombardy, the site of a Grand Prix motor racing circuit.


Palmi

a small town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria


Pomezia

The name was borrowed from Latin Pōmētia, an ancient and disappeared Roman city.


Rocciamelone

a mountain in Piedmont, near the border between Italy and France


Sanremo

From a contraction of Sant'Eremo (“Holy Hermitage”), through Ligurian San Reumo, Sanreumo. Mistaken in the past as deriving from the name of an elusive saint, san Remo, and therefore misspelled San Remo.

a town and comune of the province of Imperia, Liguria, Italy


Spoleto

From Late Latin Spōlētum, a form of Latin Spōlētium.


Testaccio

Inherited from Latin testaceus, from testa.


Tiburtino

From tiburtino (“of or from Tivoli”), ultimately from Latin Tībur (“Tivoli”).


Todi

From Latin Tuder, from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌕𐌄𐌓𐌄 (tutere).


Varano

any of several villages throughout Italy


Voltaggio

a village in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy


Volterra

From Latin Volaterrae, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌋𐌀𐌈𐌓𐌉 (velaθri).

a town in the province of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy


Carlino

a small town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia


Castagnola

From castagna (“chestnut”) + -ola (diminutive suffix).


Gerosa

a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy


Olbia

From Ancient Greek Ὀλβία (Olbía), possibly ultimately from Punic (the city contains Phoenician ruins).


Ossola

a valley in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy


Olbia-Tempio

a province of Sardinia, Italy, centered on the towns of Olbia and Tempio Pausania


Buscemi

Adapted from Sicilian Buscema, from Old Sicilian Buxema, ultimately from Arabic قَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabū šāma), meaning “Castle of the man with the mole”.

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قَلْعَةْ أَبُو شَامَة

Buscemi (a stown in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)


Marmolada

a mountain in northeastern Italy, the highest one of the Dolomites


Gattinara

a town in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Meda

a town in the province of Monza e Brianza, Lombardy, Italy


Sappada

Of uncertain origin, possibly related to Zepodn, a name for the alpine pass of Cima Sappada, from German zum Boden (“(down) to the ground”), referring to the land's elevation.

unk

uncertain

Sappada (a small town in the province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy)


Sauris

a village in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Sabaudia

Founded in 1934, named after Casa Savoia, in honor of Margherita of Savoy. Learnt borrowing from the Latin name of Savoia, from the homonymous Sabaudia.


Recanati

From Latin Ricinetum, from ricinus (a plant) + the suffix -etum.


Bagnolo in Piano

a small town in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna


Canosa di Puglia

a town in Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Avezzano

Via Neapolitan, most likely from Latin Avidiānum, less likely from Latin ad + Vettiānum.

a town and comune of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Avezzano

a frazione in the comune of Sessa Aurunca, Caserta, Campania, Italy


Castiglione della Pescaia

Literally, “Fortress of the Weir”. See castiglione and pescaia.

a small town in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy


Longhena

a town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy


Apecchio

a town in Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy


Bisiacaria

a region of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, corresponding to the southern part of the province of Gorizia


Bormio

a small town in Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Castelsardo

a small town in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy


Cavargna

a village in Como, Lombardy, Italy in a mountain valley of the same name


Cesena

a city in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Cles

a small town in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige


Fabriano

A widespread folk etymology also represented in the town's coat of arms, derives it from Latin faber in Iānō, literally, “ironsmith on the Giano”, the town's river. Fabriano used to be famous for its quality ironsmithing during the Middle Ages.


Gallipoli

→ English: Gallipoli

→ Portuguese: Galípoli

From Latin Callipolis, from Ancient Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis).


Gemona

a town in the province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Legnano

From the Latin proper name Lemennius or Limenius + the suffix -ānum.


Maratea

The name of the town was first attested in 1079 as Marathia, probably from Ancient Greek μᾰ́ρᾰθον (mắrăthon, “fennel”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), since the place is abundant in fennels.

der

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Muggia

a town in the province of Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Nizza Monferrato

a town in the province of Asti, Piedmont, Italy


Nove

→ English: Nove

Meronym: Crosara (frazione)

Nove (a small town and comune of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)


Oderzo

From Latin Opitergium, borrowed through Venetan.


Ormea

Rhotacism of earlier Ulmea, which is still used in the local dialect, from Latin ulmēta (“elm woods”).

a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Pescia

From Lombardic *pehha. Cognate with German Bach and English beck.


Salò

English: Salo

From the Roman name, Latin Pagus Salodium, of uncertain ultimate origin. Some connect it to the name of an Etruscan queen [script needed] (Salodia); or from the noun sal (“salt”) (referring to its status as an economic capital where sea salt was deposited) or salus (“health”), referring to it being a location where Roman legions would bring wounded soldiers to recuperate during the Alpine conquest.

Salo (a small town in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy)


Sermoneta

a small town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Soresina

a small town in Cremona, Lombardy, Italy


Viadana

a town in the province of Mantua, Lombardy, Italy


Ortona

a town in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy


San Vito al Tagliamento

a small town in Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia


Cerignola

→ Catalan: xerinola

→ Spanish: chirinola

From Latin Cerina, related to Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.


Bressanone

Brixen (a commune and town in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige)


Bronzolo

a small town in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige


Comelico

a mountainous region in northeastern Italy


Altomilanese

a region of Lombardy that includes the provinces of Milano, Varese and Como


Castellanza

a town in the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy


Erba

a town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Talamona

a small town in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Alcamo

Borrowed from Arabic الْقَامُوق (al-qāmūq).


Erice

Erice (a town and commune of the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy)


Mascali

a town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Aversa

a town in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy


Terracina

From Latin Terracīna, a variant of Tarracīna.

a town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Sona

a town in the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy


Mori

a comune of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Pontecorvo

Morphologically from ponte (“bridge”) + corvo (“crow”), but the second element is just a corruption of the original word curvo (“curved, bent”).

a town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Valmarana

a village in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Pozzuoli

From Latin Puteoli, cf. Neapolitan Pezzulo.


Casoria

a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Altamura

From alta ("high") + mura ("city walls").

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Molfetta

Maybe related to Latin Melphes, an ancient river of the Roman region of Lucania.


Manfredonia

From Manfredi (“a male given name”) + -onia (suffix forming place names), after Manfred, King of Sicily who founded the city in 1256 after the distruction of Sipontum.

suffix

a large town in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy


Trani

a town in Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Bitonto

a large town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Bagheria

From Sicilian Baarìa, of uncertain further origin. Derivation from Arabic بحرية (baḥriyya) is considered the most likely origin.

a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Bisceglie

a town in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Collegno

From Piedmontese Colègn, from Latin collēgium (“corporation, company”). Doublet of collegio, a borrowing from Latin.


Scandicci

Maybe from Latin scandula, a type of plant.


Battipaglia

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

it-verb-obj

a town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Scafati

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


Gallarate

From the Latin proper name Galerius + the suffix -ate.


Civitavecchia

From Civita + vecchia, literally “old city”.


Sacile

a town in Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Modica

Borrowed from Sicilian Mòdica, from Latin Motyca.


Enza

Borrowed from Emilian, from Latin Incia.
The given name is Enzo + -a, ultimately of Germanic origin.


Chiese

From Latin Clesis, variation of Clūsius.


Dora Riparia

From Latin Duria. "Riparia" comes from Ripa, the name of an affluent, and it's used to distinguish this river from the Dora Baltea.


Simeto

From Latin Symaethus, from Ancient Greek Σύμαιθος (Súmaithos).


Alcantara

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْقَنْطَرَة (al-qanṭara, “the bridge”).

bor+

اَلْقَنْطَرَة


Anapo

From Latin Anapus, from Ancient Greek Ἄναπος (Ánapos).


Ciane

From Latin Cyane, from Ancient Greek Κυάνη (Kuánē).


Ippari

From Latin Hipparis, from Ancient Greek Ἵππαρις (Hípparis).


Naro

Disputed. Theorized origins include:
* Ancient Greek ναρόν (narón, “current”)
* Ancient Greek νηρόν (nērón) / νερόν (nerón), both meaning "water"
* Arabic نَهَر (nahar, “river”)


Naro

a town and comune of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Imera

From Latin Himera, from Ancient Greek Ἱμέρα (Himéra).


Tirso

From Latin Thyrsus, from Ancient Greek Θύρσος (Thúrsos).


Ostuni

a town in the province of Brindisi, Apulia, Italy


Loreto

a town in Ancona, Marche, Italy, famous for its sanctuary


Palmanova

a town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Soligo

a village in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy


Soligo

a river in Veneto, from the name of the village it crosses


Albenga

a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy


Piombino

Probably from Latin Populinum, diminutive form of Populonia, the nearby Etruscan city.


Narni

From Latin Narnia, from Nar (“the river Nera”).


Miscano

From the earlier form Misclanu (attested since 10th century). Further etymology unknown.


Castelrosso

From castello (“castle”) + rosso (“red”), “red castle”. Compare Catalan Castellroig, Greek Καστελλόριζο (Kastellórizo) and Piedmontese Castelross.

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Καστελλόριζο

a village and frazione of Chivasso, Piedmont


Tavolara

a small island off the coast of Sardinia


Ponza

Ponza (a small island off the coast of Lazio, Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea)


Fossombrone

a town in Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy


Dobbiaco

a town in Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Corno

From corno, because of the shape of its course.


Sutri

From Latin Sutrium, from Etruscan 𐌔𐌖𐌈𐌓𐌉 (suθri).


Clitunno

a small river in Umbria, famous for its springs


Noto

Borrowed from Sicilian Notu, from Latin Nētum, from Ancient Greek Νέητον (Néēton).


Licata

a large town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Dittaino

From Arabic وَادِي التِين (wādī t-tīn, literally “clay river”).

uder

وَادِي التِين


Gornalunga

Italianized after Sicilian Gurnalonga, from gurna (small body of water) + longa (long).


Chiusi

From Latin Clusium, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌄𐌅𐌔𐌉 (clevsi).

a town in Siena province, Tuscany, Italy


Tarvisio

Tarvisio (a town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy)


Voghera

From Latin Vicus Iriae, from the previous name Iria. Borrowed via Lombard.

a town in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy


Lentini

Borrowed from Sicilian Lintini, from Old Sicilian Liuntini, from Latin Leontini, from Ancient Greek Λεοντῖνοι (Leontînoi, “the leonines”).


Locri

From Latin Locri, from Ancient Greek Λοκροί (Lokroí).

a town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Solferino

a small town in the province of Mantua, Lombardy, Italy


Portoferraio

→ Armenian: Պորտոֆերաիո (Portoferaio)

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По̀ртафера́ё

→ Belarusian: По̀ртафера́ё (Pòrtafjerájo)

→ Bulgarian: Портоферайо (Portoferajo)

→ English: Portoferraio, Porto Ferraio, Porto Ferrajo

→ French: Portoferraio

→ Japanese: ポルトフェッラーイオ (Porutoferrāio)

→ Korean: 포르토페라이오 (Poreutoperaio)

→ Latin: Portus Ferrārius (New Latin)

zh-l

費拉約港／费拉约港 (Fèilāyuē Gǎng)

→ Mandarin: 費拉約港／费拉约港 (Fèilāyuē Gǎng) (partial calque)

→ Persian: پورتوفرایو (portoferâyo)

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По̀ртоферра́йо

→ Russian: По̀ртоферра́йо (Pòrtoferrájo)

→ Sicilian: Portufirraiu

По̀ртоферра́йо

→ Ukrainian: По̀ртоферра́йо (Pòrtoferrájo)

From porto (“harbour/harbor”) + ferraio (“that works iron”), literally “iron-working harbour/harbor”, after the numerous ironworks historically present in its territory.

af

Portoferraio (a city and harbour in Elba, Italy)


Venafro

a town in the province of Isernia, Molise, Italy


Sovana

From Latin Suāna, from Etruscan 𐌔𐌅𐌀𐌍𐌀 (svana).


Roero

Possibly a Piedmontese derivation (see Roé) from Latin rota (“wheel”), whence also Piedmontese roa and Italian ruota.

(with the article) an area of Piedmont, Italy, taking its name after the family who ruled it


Priverno

From Latin Prīvernum. Doublet of Piperno, which is a derived form, the old name of the town. The name was changed in 1927 to underline the Latin origin of the settlement.

a small town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Palmarola

Palmarola (an island of the Pontine Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea, of Italy)


Farfa

From Latin Farfarus, another name of the river Fabaris.


Mazaro

From Latin Mazarus, alternative form of Mazara.


Vieste

a town in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy


Lanciano

a town in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy


Ofena

a small town in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Assoro

From Latin Assōrus, from Ancient Greek Ἄσσωρος (Ássōros).


Gualdo Tadino

From gualdo (“wood, forest”) and Latin Tadinum.


Brescello

Reggio nell'Emilia
Reggio nell'Emilia#English

a town in Reggio nell'Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Forlimpopoli

a town in Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Cerreto di Spoleto

a village in Perugia, Umbria, Italy, whose inhabitants gained a reputation in the Middle Ages for being charlatans


Pendino

→ English: Pendino

Pendino (a quarter in the Second Municipality of the city of Naples, Campania region, Italy)


Cerda

a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Manzano

Praedial toponym, from Latin (A)mantius (“a personal name”) + -ānus.

a town in the province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Randazzo

a town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Bova

a town in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Palazzolo

From Late Latin Palatiolum, from palatium (“a palace; large residence”) + -olum (diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, palazzo + -olo. Cognate with Friulian Palaçûl e Palassôl, Lombard Palasöl, Piedmontese Palasseu, Romagnol Palazôl, Sicilian Palazzolu.

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Palizzolo (alternative)
Palazzuolo (alternative)

a town in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy: Palazzolo Acreide.


Capobianco

From capo + bianco.
* (surname): From the nickname for a white-haired person

Isola di Capo Rizzuto
Isola di Capo Rizzuto#English

Capobianco (a village in Isola di Capo Rizzuto, Crotone, Calabria, Italy)


Fasano

Probably a praedial toponym, perhaps from Latin Fadius (“a personal name”) + -ānus.

a town in the province of Brindisi, Apulia, Italy


Masi

Patronymic/plural form of Maso, shortened from the personal name Tommaso, a from of Thomas.


Butera

a town in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy


Cammarata

Borrowed from Sicilian Cammarata, from Byzantine Greek καμάρα (kamára, “span”) + -ata. Compare Sicilian Camerina.

a village in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Caggiano

Praedial toponym, from Latin Cāius + -ānus.

a town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Gerace

From Latin Ierax, itself from Ancient Greek Ιέραξ (Iérax), the ancient name of the town.


Nicastro

From Medieval Latin Neocastrum (“new camp”), from Byzantine Greek Νεόκαστρον (Neókastron, “new castle”), a compound of νέος (néos, “new”) + κάστρον (kástron, “fort, castle”).

der

a town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Sciacca

Sciacca (a city in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)


Carini

From Latin Iccara + -ini, from earlier Hyccara, in turn derived from Ancient Greek Ὕκκαρα (Húkkara).


Gangi

Uncertain. Gangi is sometimes theorized to be the now lost Cretan city of Engyon, from Ancient Greek Ἒγγυον (Ènguon), which (if true) would imply the name is in some form derived from the Greek lemma.


Salemi

Borrowed from Sicilian Salemi, probably from Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Cfr. Hebrew שלום (shalóm). Doublet of Sallemi and Salemme

a town in the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy


Mondello

Borrowed from Sicilian Munneḍḍu, from munneḍḍu (“wooden container”), possibly from a diminutive based on Latin mundus. Compare Sicilian munnari.

a neighbourhood of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Bivona

Allegedly from "bis bona", compare earlier forms Bibona and Bisbona.

a town and comune of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Rutigliano

Praedial toponym, from Latin Rutilius + -ānus.

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Belcastro

From bel (“beautiful”) + castro (“castle”).

a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Melfi

Said to be related to the name of the small nearby river Melpes, Melphes, mentioned by Pliny. According to De Giovanni this name is from a Mediterranean (possibly Italic, like the Oenotrians) substrate *melf, *melp, of uncertain meaning, but compare Melpis and Melpum.


Burgio

From Arabic بُرْج (burj, “tower”) + -io.


Furnari

Occupational surname from Late Latin furnārius (“baker”).


Tricarico

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Tosi

a hamlet in Reggello, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy


Salce

Probably from salce, variant of salice (“willow”).

a village in the province of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Miano

a neighbourhood of Naples, Campania, Italy


Badolato

Probably from Latin vadum (“ford”) + latus (“broad”).


Sinopoli

a town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Mangone

Most likely and in most cases, Mangone seems to represent a word that is widespread in the South of Italy for “left-handed” or “awkward.” In Calabria, it could also derive from the placename Mangone in the province of Cosenza, which in turn may represent L. mango, “slavetrader.” In some cases it could be related to the French surname Mangon, “butcher.” On the other hand, Michele Francipane in his Dizionario dei cognomi italiani (2005) connects Mangone unequivocally with It. mangano, "mangle," as it relates to the manufacture of cloth.


Brienza

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Saviano

a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Sortino

a town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy


Pollina

Possibly from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλωνία (Apollōnía)


Caccamo

a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Comiso

Comiso (a city in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy)


Villarosa

Compound of villa (“mansion, countryhouse”) + rosa (“rose; pink”).

com+

a village in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Maniago

a town in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Murialdo

a village in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy


Luserna

Borrowed from Venetan Łuxerna, from Cimbrian Lusérn, probably from a Middle High German word for “mountain pass”.

Luserna (a Cimbrian-speaking village in Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Settecani

a village in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo (a commune of the Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Maranello

English: Maranello

Maranello (a small town in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy); it is the home of the Ferrari racing car/race car factory and museum


Cinisi

Borrowed from Sicilian Cìnisi, from Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “church”).


Lascari

Borrowed from Sicilian Làscari /Làschiri, from Arabic العَسْكَرِيّ (al-ʕaskariyy, “the army”), from the Arabic name مَدِينَة العَسْكَرِيّ (madīnat al-ʕaskariyy, “city of the army”). Doublet of ascaro.

der

العَسْكَرِيّ


Staglieno

a neighbourhood of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Nicotera

a town in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Thiene

a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Mezzaselva

Mezzaselva (a frazione in the comune of Roana, Vicenza, Italy)


Gallicchio

a village in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Vigata

a fictional town in Sicily, in the books by Andrea Camilleri, based on Porto Empedocle


Montelusa

a fictional town in Sicily, in the books by Andrea Camilleri, based on Agrigento


Venezia Giulia

Venezia Giulia (a historic region of Italy)


Frattaminore

a district of Naples, once called "Pomigliano d'Atella"


Bibione

a small coastal resort in Venice, Veneto, Italy


Tropea

From Ancient Greek τροπαίᾱ (tropaíā), feminine declension of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “turning away, averting”), especially in the sense πνοή τροπαία (pnoḗ tropaía, “an alternating wind, blowing back from sea to land”).


Revello

a comune of the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Vinegia

Borrowed from Venetan, from Latin Venetia, from the pre-Roman substrate population of the Venetī, name of an ancient Italic people living in an area corresponding to the present-day North-East of Italy.

Puis s'en parti Antenor et Prians, à grant compaignie de gent, et se n'alerent en la marche de Trevise, non mie loing de Venise, et là firent une autre cité que est apelée Padoe

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, pages 106–107:

Then Antenor and Priam, along with many other people, left and went to the march of Treviso, where they built another city, which is called Padua, not far from Venice.

Il fu voir que au tens qe Baudoin estoit enperaor de Gostantinople, ce fu a les .mccl. anç, mesire Nicolao Pol, que pere messire March estoit, et messiere Mafeu Pol, que frere mesere Nicolau estoit, cesti deus freres estoient en la cité de Gostantinople, qui i estoient alés de Venese con leur merchandie

c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as “Lor partita di Gostantinopoli [Their departure from Constantinople]” (chapter 2), in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:

It is true that, at the time that Baldwin was emperor of Constantinople—that was in the year of Christ 1250—sir Niccolò Polo (who was sir Marco's father) and his brother, sir Matteo Polo, these two brothers were in the city of Constantinople, having come from Venice with goods for trading

messomi io in cammino, di Vinegia partendomi ed andandomene per lo Borgo de’ greci e di quindi per lo reame del Garbo cavalcando e per Baldacca, pervenni in Parione

1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata sesta – Novella decima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:

Having gotten on my way, leaving Venice and passing through Borgo de' Greci, from which, riding through the kingdom of Algarve and Baldacca, I came to Parione

E le condizione de’ tempi, nostra infelicità, tengono disparsa e disseminata la nostra famiglia Alberta, come vedi, parte in Ponente, a Londra, Bruggia, Cologna, pochi in Italia, a Vinegia, a Genova, a Bologna, in Roma alcuni

1433–1440, Leon Battista Alberti, “Libro secondo [Second book]”, in I libri della famiglia; collected in Cecil Grayson, editor, Leon Battista Alberti - Opere volgari^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Opere_volgari_(Alberti)), volume 1, Bari: Gius. Laterza e figli, 1960, page 85:

And the circumstances of our time—to our chagrin—keep our family of the Alberti dispersed and scattered, as you see, part in the West, in London, Bruges, Cologne; a few in Italy, in Venice, in Genua, in Bologna, some in Rome

Per che vi fece l’apparecchio delle nozze ordinare bello e grande, e, invitatovi delle vicine contrade qualunque più onorato uomo v’era con le lor donne, e da Vinegia similmente, in suoni e canti e balli e solennissimi conviti l’un giorno appresso all’altro ne menava

1530, Pietro Bembo, “Capitolo II [Chapter 2]”, Libro primo [First book], in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:

So she ordered a beautiful, great wedding to be prepared, and, having invited from the nearby parishes all the most honoured men there were, along with their women—and from Venice as well—she spent day after day in sounds, singing, dances, and most solemn banquets

[…] Tu sai, che invano
l’uccisor d’Alessandro asilo e scampo
sperò trovare in libera contrada.
Tuo brando il giunse entro Vinegia […]

1789, Vittorio Alfieri, “Atto primo”, in Don Garzia^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Don_Garzia_(Alfieri,_1946)), Scena prima; collected in Nicola Bruscoli, editor, Vittorio Alfieri - Tragedie^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedie_(Alfieri,_1946),_Volume_II), volume 2, Bari: Laterza, 1946, page 356:

You know how Alessandro's murderer hoped in vain to find refuge and escape in a free country: your sword reached him in Venice

(archaic, poetic) Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)


Franchitti

English: Franchitti

Franchitti (a hamlet in Isernia, Molise, Italy)


Bregnano

a small town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Caslino d'Erba

a village in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Fortunago

a small town in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy


Piubega

a small town in the province of Mantova, Lombardy, Italy


Birago

a village in the province of Monza e Brianza, Lombardy, Italy


Palena

a town in Chieti province, Abruzzo, Italy


Savigliano

a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Montemurro

From Latin mōns (“mountain, mount”) + *murrum (“muzzle, snout; rocky mass, mound, hillock”).

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Viganò

Perhaps from Latin vīcānōrum, plural of vīcānus (“villager, peasant”), meaning a land or settlement owned or populated by peasants.

a village in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy


Bagnasco

a village in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Celano

a town in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Gratteri

a village in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Cirigliano

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Daverio

a town in the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy


Platania

a town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Fabro

The occupational surname is from fabro, variant of fabbro (“smith”).


Seminara

a town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Savoca

a town in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy


Tarsia

a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Vizzini

Ultimately an evolution of Latin Bidis, the original name of the settlement.


Montefusco

a town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Cantù

a town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Vernole

a town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Russi

The surname is probably a southern variant of Rossi.

a town in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Maenza

a town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Malvagna

a village in the province of Messina, Sicily, Italy


Nurra

a geographical region in the northwest of Sardinia autonomous region, Italy


Montemagno

Compound of monte (“mountain, hill”) + magno (“great, mighty”).

com+

a town in the province of Asti, Piedmont, Italy


Siddi

a town in South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy


Caccuri

a town in the province of Crotone, Calabria, Italy


Vermiglio

a town in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Spinazzola

a town in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy


Pizzoni

a town in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Camposano

a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Acquaro

a town in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Santa Maria degli Angeli

Spanish: Los Ángeles

English: Los Angeles

a village near Assisi, Italy, famed for the indulgence granted at its Portiuncula chapel on 1 & 2 August


Casamassima

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Minissale

a neighbourhood of Messina, Sicily, Italy


Lomazzo

a town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Monfalcone

Compound of monte (“hill, mountain”) + falcone (“falcon”).

a town in the province of Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Berchidda

Borrowed from Sardinian, from Latin Berquilla.

Berchidda (a city and commune of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy)


Borsoi

a village in the province of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Castellaneta

a town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy


Cornalba

a town in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy


Pescosolido

a town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Roppolo

a village in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Roccabruna

a commune of the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Acerenza

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Demonte

a town in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Torraca

a town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Bagnaia

a village in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy


Regalbuto

a town in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Mugello

a region of Tuscany, Italy, also the namesake of the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello.


Cellamare

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Calatabiano

a town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Ceriana

a village in the province of Imperia, Liguria, Italy


Costamagna

a village in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy


Custoza

Borrowed from Venetan Custoxa, from Latin custōdia (“protection, guardianship”).

der

a town in the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy


Belsito

Compound of bel (“nice, beautiful”) + sito (“place, location, site”).

com+

a village in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Bisignano

a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Sersale

a town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Sciullo

a village in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Stroppiana

a town in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Maggiora

a village in the province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy


Varago

a village in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy


Camporeale

a village in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Futani

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


Faggiano

a town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy


Colciago

a small village in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Castrovillari

From Latin castrum (“castle, fort, fortress”) + vīllārum, genitive plural of vīlla (“country house; city”).


Accadia

a village in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Italy


Auletta

a village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Gambatesa

Compound of gamba (“leg”) + tesa (“outstretched”).

com+

a town in the province of Campobasso, Molise, Italy


Uscio

a comune in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Visciano

a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Stenico

a town in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Cassaro

Adapted from the toponym U Càssaru, from Sicilian càssaru; akin to cassero (“castle; keep, donjon”) and the older variant cassaro.

a town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy


Balocco

a village in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Giovinazzo

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Fraioli

a village in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Tufello

From tufo (“tuff”), material which was of high quantity in the ground on which the district was built.


Capalbio

Likely from Capo d'Alveo (literally “head of riverbed”), from the name of a medieval castle built near a river.
Other theories derive it from Latin Caput Album (literally “white head”) or Campus Albus (literally “white field”), due to the presence of white alabaster in the area.

inh

a town and municipality of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy


Grisolia

a town in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Copertino

English: Cupertino


Pietralunga

Compound of pietra (“stone, rock”) + lunga (“long”).

com+

a town in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy


Oga

→ English: Oga

Oga: a frazione in Valdisotto, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Rivoli

Rivoli (a comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy)

Rivoli (a comune of Verona, Veneto, Italy)


Venegia

Quant la cité de Troie fu destruite […] il avint que Prians li juenes, qui fu filz de la seror au roi Prian de Troie, entre lui et Antenor, s'en alerent par mer o tout .xiiijᵐ. homes à armes, tant que il arriverent là où est ore la cité de Venise

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260–1267], “Delli re di Francia [On the kings of France]” (chapter 39), in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou Tresor by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 106:

When the city of Troy was destroyed, so it occurred that Priam—young son of king of Troy Priam's sister—and another potentate named Antenor, traveled so far through sea and through land, with fourteen-thousand armed people, that they arrived there, where the city of Venice now lies.

messer Masio Visconte de Melano lo chiamò podestà di Melano; et accettato l’officio venne per mare in fine a Venegia; e quando volse andare da Venegia a Padova, quelli che lo perseguitavano l’ucciseno nella valle di Doriaco

1385–1396, Francesco di Bartolo, “Canto Ⅴ [Canto 5]”, in Commento di Francesco da Buti sopra la Divina commedia di Dante Allighieri [Commentary of Francesco da Buti on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Commedia_(Buti)), C. V— v. 64-84.; republished, Pisa: Fratelli Nistri, 1858, page 111:

Sir Masio, viscount of Milan, appointed him [Iacopo del Cassaro] as podesta of Milan. And, [having] accepted the mandate, he finally came by sea to Venice, and, when he decided to go from Venice to Padua, his persecutors murdered him in the valley of Doriaco

Fu il Palma molto più nei colori unito, sfumato e paziente, che gagliardo nel disegno, e quegli maneggiò con grazia, pulitezza grandissima, come si vede in Venegia in molti quadri e ritratti che fece a diversi gentiluomini

1568, Giorgio Vasari, “Iacopo Palma e Lorenzo Lotto”, in Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects], 2ndⁿᵈ expanded and revised edition, Florence: Giunti:

Palma was a lot more solid, shaded, and patient with colors, than energetic with drawing, and he handled the former with the greatest grace and tidiness, as one can see in Venice, in many paintings and portraits he made for several gentlemen

(archaic, poetic) alternative form of Vinegia; Venice (the capital city of Veneto, Italy)


Matrice

[…] Alfonſo la recuperatione de la Marcha cõ ogni ſua induﬅria, e forza li promiſe, e Ciuita Ducata, Cumulo e la Matrice, terre di Abruzzo, à la chieſa reﬅitui.

a. 1504, Pandolfo Collenuccio, “Libro sesto [Sixth book]”, in Compendio delle historie del Regno di Napoli [Summary of the history of the Kingdom of Naples], Venice, published 1548, page 180:

Alfonso promised him the reclamation of the march through all of his skill and strength, and gave Civita, Ducata, Accumoli, and Amatrice—lands of Abruzzo—back to the church.

Superius quīntō mīliāriō pariter ad Troentī dexteram est Accumulum nōbile oppidum et item superius sub Troentī fonte est Amātrix oppidum

1542 [1474], “Regione V - La marca d'Ancona chiamata dagli antichi Piceno [Region 5 - The march of Ancona, called Picenum by the ancients]”, in Lucio Fauno, transl., Italia illustrata [Illustrated Italy], translation of Italia illūstrāta by Flavio Biondo (in Renaissance Latin), page 131; collected in Roma ristaurata et Italia illustrata, Venice, 1542:

Going up for five miles, still on the right bank of the Tronto, is another good land called Accumoli, and higher up, under where the Tronto begins, is the land [of] Amatrice

Mandarono Guido di Paolo Monteſperelli al Patriarca Vitelleſco […] a eſcuſarſi della paſſata di Franceſco Piccinino per il loro territorio; la partita del quale dal Contado di Siena, & il paſſaggio, ch’ei fece per lo Perugino, fu per andare a ſoccorrere la Matrice, ch’era aſſediata da Antognuccio dall’Aquila

1569–1594, Pompeo Pellini, “Libro duodecimo [Twelfth book]”, in Dell'historia di Perugia [On the history of Perugia], volume 2, Venice: Gio. Giacomo Hertz, published 1664, page 396:

They sent Guido di Paolo Montesperelli to patriarch Vitelleschi, to apologize for the passage through their territory of Francesco Piccinino, whose departure from the county of Siena, and the passage he made through the lands of Perugia, was in order to give aid to Amatrice, which was being besieged by Antonuccio of L'Aquila

ricorſe all’ajuto del Duca di Milano, e lo pregò per lettere, e per ambaſciate a far deviare le mire del Conte Franceſco Sforza. Coﬅui conquiﬅata Norcia, entrò nel Reame per la via d’Abruzzo, nel Giugno accordò la Matrice, ed Acumoli, ed altre Terre.

1758–1778, Anton Ludovico Antinori, chapter II (chapter 2), in Raccolta di memorie istoriche delle tre province degli Abbruzzi [Collection of historical memoirs of the three provinces of Abruzzo], volume 3, Naples: Giuseppe Campo, published 1782, Continuano le ostilità tra i due re [Hostilities between the two kings continue] (section 22), page 365:

He resorted to the help of the Duke of Milan, and begged him—through letters and messages—to drive Count Francesco Sforza elsewhere. He [Sforza], having conquered Norcia, entered the realm through Abruzzo; in June, he reconciled Amatrice, and Accumoli, and other lands.

obsolete form of Amatrice: a small town in Rieti, Lazio, Italy, usually used absolutely as la Matrice


Fontanarosa

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

com

a town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Gamberale

a town in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy


Aliano

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Carmagnola

desctree

→ French: carmagnole
→ Albanian: karamanjollë (“guillotine”)
→ English: carmagnole
→ Greek: καρμανιόλα (karmanióla, “guillotine”)

a town in the province of Turin, Piedmont, Italy


Stintino

PIE word
 *h₁én
Borrowed from Sassarese Isthintinu, from isthintinu (“intestine”), from Classical Latin intestīnum (“entrails, innards”), nominalization of intestīnus (“internal”, adjective).

inh

a city and commune of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy


Scanno

By folk etymology, often made to derive from Latin scamnum (“stool”).


Genga

a village in the province of Ancona, Marche, Italy


Sellaria

la Sellaria (canonical feminine)
Selleria (alternative)

→ English: Sellaria

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Sellaria.

(historical) Sellaria (a former quartiere [quarter] of the city of Naples, Italy, which occupied territory approximating to that of the present-day quartiere of Pendino)


Cisternino

a town in the province of Brindisi, Apulia, Italy


Arese

a town in the province of Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Torre del Greco

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


Torre Annunziata

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

lit

Torre Annunziata
Torre Annunziata#English

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


Ponticelli

From ponticelli, plural form of ponticello (“small bridge”).

a neighbourhood of Naples, Campania, Italy


Lainate

Lainate (a commune of Milan, Lombardy, Italy)


Intra

From Latin intrā (“within, inside”), because it is located between two rivers. In 1939 it merged with Pallanza to form the city of Verbania.

a neighbourhood of Verbania, Piedmont, Italy


Pallanza

From Latin Palantia. In 1939 it merged with Intra to form the city of Verbania.


Lavagna

a town in the province of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Gandino

→ English: Gandino

Gandino (a comune of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy)

it:Gandellino
it:Gandosso
it:provincia di Bergamo
province of Bergamo


Strassoldo

a village in the province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Caltavuturo

a town in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


Scordia

a town in the province of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Bertipaglia

a village in the province of Padova, Veneto, Italy


Aprigliano

Praedial toponym, from Latin Aprīlius + -ānus.

a village in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Quindici

a village in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Stigliano

a village in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Campolattaro

a town in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Calascibetta

Calascibetta (a small town in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy)


Oneta

Ultimately from the plural form of Latin *alnetus (“alder forest”), from alnus (“alder”).

a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy


Summonte

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


Genivolta

a village in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy


Positano

a village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Loreggia

a town in the province of Padua, Veneto, Italy


Firenzuola

a town in the province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy


Tortima

a village in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Flecchia

a village in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Sardagna

a village in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


Galbusera

a village in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy


Zocca

a town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Sperlinga

a village in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Solimbergo

a village in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Melpignano

a village in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Leonforte

Compound of leone (“lion”) + forte (“strong”), in tribute of the founder's coat of arms, a lion holding a banner.

com+

a town in the province of Enna, Sicily, Italy


Farnocchia

a village in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy


Putignano

a town in the province of Bari, Apulia, Italy


Roccabianca

Compound of rocca (“fortress, stronghold”) + bianca (“white”).

a town in the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Sommacampagna

Compound of somma (“highest, greatest”) + campagna (“countryside; farmland”).

a town in the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy


Leverano

a town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Tramutola

a village in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Briatico

From Byzantine Greek Ευριατικόν (Euriatikón).

a town in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Miglionico

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Barlassina

a town in the province of Monza e Brianza, Lombardy, Italy


Spotorno

From Medieval Latin Spelturnum, perhaps a derivation from spelta (“spelt”), indicating a place where this cereal was cultivated.

a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy


Chiaia

Borrowed from Neapolitan chiaja or chiaia (“beach, strand”).

a neighbourhood of Naples, Campania, Italy


Soccavo

From Latin sub (“under”) + cavum (“hollow, cavity”) or cava (“pit, cavern”).


Pontelandolfo

Compound of ponte (“bridge”) + Landolfo (“a male given name”), from the name of a Longobard prince who built a bridge over the local river.

a village in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Mesiano

a village in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Baselice

a town in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Casalecchio

From Latin Casaliculum (“group of cottages”).

Casalecchio di Reno
Casalecchio di Reno#English

(informal) Casalecchio di Reno (a commune of the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Castel Bolognese
Castel Bolognese#English

Casalecchio (a frazione in Castel Bolognese, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Casalecchio di Reno

Literally, “Casalecchio by the Reno”, using the name of the river by the town to distinguish it from the village in Castel Bolognese.


Castel Bolognese

Castel Bolognese (a commune of the Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Montabone

a village in the province of Asti, Piedmont, Italy


Capranica

a town in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy


Sambiase

a town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Bagni

Bagni (a frazione in Nocera Umbra, Perugia, Umbria, Italy)

Bagni (a stream in Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy)


Bagno

Bagno (a frazione in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy)

Bagno (a frazione in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Pomarico

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Acquaformosa

Univerbation of acqua (“water”) + formosa (“beautiful”).

univ

Acquaformosa (a commune of the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy)


Sangineto

a village in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Vernazza

a village in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, Italy


Agerola

a town in the province of Naples, Campania, Italy


Presicce

a town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Abatemarco

Compound of abate (“abbot”) + Marco (“Mark”), perhaps the name of the governor of the village who was an abbot at a local monastery.

com+

a village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Lagonegro

Compound of lago (“lake”) + negro (“black”).

a town in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Arpaia

a village in the province of Benevento, Campania, Italy


Omegna

a town in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy


Antole

a neighbourhood of Belluno, Veneto, Italy


Lovadina

a village in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy


Solagna

a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Oneglia

From Latin Unelia. In 1923 it merged with Porto Maurizio to form the city of Imperia.

a neighbourhood of Imperia, Liguria, Italy


Zoagli

a town in the province of Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Garlasco

a town in the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy


Angri

a town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Lacedonia

a town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Amendolara

From Vulgar Latin *(a)mendula (“almond”) + -ara, denoting an area rich in almond trees.

a town in the province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy


Trebisacce

Morphologically from tre (“three”) + bisacce (“haversacks”), however this is just a corruption of Greek τραπεζὰκιον (trapezàkion), diminutive of τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”), denoting a flat area surrounded by elevations.


Brisighella

a town in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Trasacco

From Latin trans (“between”) + aquas (“waters”).

a town in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Secinaro

a village in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy


Affori

a neighbourhood of Milan, Lombardy, Italy


Barzizza

a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy


Collepardo

Apparently from colle (“hill”) + pardo (“pard, leopard, panther”), perhaps denoting a place populated by wild cats or lynxes.

com

a village in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy


Gibellina

a town in the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy


Cannalonga

Compound of canna (“cane, reed”) + longa (“long”).

com+

a village in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Colloredo

Metathesized form of Latin corylētum (“hazel thicket, hazel copse”).

der

Colloredo di Monte Albano
Colloredo di Monte Albano#Italian

a number of places in Friuli-Venezia Giulia:

Colloredo di Monte Albano, a town in the province of Udine

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English

Colloredo di Prato
Colloredo di Prato#Italian

Colloredo di Prato, a village in the province of Udine


Vogogna

a town in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy


Pulsano

a town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy


Scorrano

Praedial toponym, from Latin Scurra + -ānus.

a town in the province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy


Breganze

a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy


Zungri

a village in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy


Lappano

a village in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy


Buronzo

a village in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Pescopagano

a village in the province of Potenza, Basilicata, Italy


Forenza

From Latin Forentum, with a change of suffix.


Flumeri

a village in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Mercogliano

A praedial toponym, from the Latin name Mercurius + -ānus.

a town in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy


Favara

From Arabic فَوَّارَة (fawwāra, “fountain, sparkling spring”), in reference to a local spring.

a town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy


Moscufo

a town in the province of Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy


Candelo

a town in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Zubiena

a village in the province of Biella, Piedmont, Italy


Longano

a village in the province of Isernia, Molise, Italy


Grassano

Probably a praedial toponym, from the Latin cognomen Crassus + -ānus.

a town in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy


Seniga

a village in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy


Castelgrande

Compound of castel (“castle”) + grande (“big, large”).


Melilli

a town in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy