Frosinone

Frosinone (a town and province of Lazio, Italy)


Viterbo

Viterbo (a province and town in Lazio, 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


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


Bracciano

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


Bolsena

From Latin Volsĭ́nĭī, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌋𐌆𐌍𐌀 (velzna).


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”).


Mentana

A town in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy


Pomezia

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


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.


Terracina

From Latin Terracīna, a form of Tarracīna.


Civitavecchia

From Civita + vecchia, literally “old city”.


Sutri

From Latin Sutrium, from Etruscan 𐌔𐌖𐌈𐌓𐌉 (suθri).


Priverno

From Latin Prīvernum. Doublet of Piperno, the old name of the town.


Piperno

From Latin Privernum. Doublet of Priverno.

former name of Priverno, a town in Lazio, 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”), usually used absolutely as la Matrice