Avicenna

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Avicenna, from Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā).

اِبْن سِينَا

Arabic اِبْن سِينَا (ibn sīnā)

L'Aere, secondo Avicenna, è uno degli elementi delle cose generate

13ᵗʰ century, “Ⅱ. Dell'aria, e conoscimento della bontà, e malizia sua [2. About the Air, and the Discernment of Its Goodness and Badness]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:

Air is, according to Avicenna, one of the elements of the created things

[…] e vidi Orfeo,
Tulïo e Lino e Seneca morale;
Eulide geomètra e Tolomeo,
Ipocràte, Avicenna e Galïeno,
Averoìs che ’l gran comento feo.

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 140–144; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

and Orpheus saw I, Tully and Livy, and moral Seneca, Euclid, geometrician, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, and Galen, and Averroes, who the great Comment made.

Avicenna (Persian polymath (c. 980–1037))


Nicea

Nicaea (ancient Greek city in northwestern Anatolia, in modern Turkey; modern İznik)


Norcia

A town in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy


Odoacre

Odoacer, first non-Roman king of Italy from 433-493 CE


Orione

From Latin Ōrīōn, from Ancient Greek Ὠρίων (Ōríōn).

(Greek mythology) Orion (a giant-hunter, pursuer of the Pleiades and lover of Eos)

Orion (a constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel)


Orvieto

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


Paganini

Niccolò Paganini, Italian composer and violinist


Palatinato

Electorate of the Palatinate
Electorate of the Palatinate

Palatinate, Electorate of the Palatinate


Paperina

From papera (“duck”) + -ina (diminutive suffix).


Paperino

From paperino (“gosling”), from papero (“duck”) + -ino (diminutive suffix).


Paperone

From papero (“duck”) + -one (augmentative suffix). Compare the surname Paparone, italianized after Sicilian Paparuni.

Scrooge McDuck, Uncle Scrooge (Disney character)


Parmenide

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παρμενίδης (Parmenídēs).


Parsifal

Percival (especially as protagonist of Wagner's synonymous musical drama)


Pasifae

Borrowed from Latin Pāsiphaē, from Ancient Greek Πασιφάη (Pasipháē, literally “the all-lighter”).

der

(Greek mythology) Pasiphae (mother of the Minotaur)


Mostar

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina#English

Mostar (a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina)


Patrizio

Japanese: パトリーツィオ (Patorītsio)

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Patrick


Patroclo

From Ancient Greek Πάτροκλος (Pátroklos).


Pelagio

From Latin Pelagius, from Ancient Greek Πελάγιος (Pelágios).


Perseo

From the Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús).


Zemfira

Земфи́ра Земфира#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Земфи́ра (Zemfíra)


Pigmalione

From Ancient Greek Πυγμαλίων (Pugmalíōn).

(Greek mythology) Pygmalion (king of Cyprus)


Pina

a diminutive of the female given name Giuseppina


Pippo

Filippo or Giuseppe
Filippo or Giuseppe#Italian

a diminutive of the male given name Filippo or Giuseppe


Piramo

From Latin Pyrămus, from Ancient Greek Πύραμος (Púramos).

the ancient name of the Ceyhan river, that flows in Turkey


Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian dramatist and poet


Pirellone

The Pirelli company skyscraper in Milan
w:it:Grattacielo Pirelli

(by extension) the regional government of Lombardy


Pirelli

Pirelli Tyre company


Pirrone

From the personal name Pirro + -one (“augmentative suffix”).

a surname transferred from the given name


Pisistrato

From Ancient Greek Πεισίστρατος (Peisístratos).

uder

Πεισίστρατος


Pizia

From Latin Pȳthia, from Ancient Greek Πυθία (Puthía).


Poldo

a diminutive of the male given name Leopoldo


Polesine

the region comprising the lower reaches of the river Po and its delta


Giro

(cycling, by ellipsis) the Giro d'Italia


Giro d'Italia

(cycling) Giro d'Italia (annual cycling race in Italy)


Vuelta a España

Borrowed from Spanish Vuelta a España (literally “Tour of Spain”).

bor+

(cycling) Vuelta a España (annual cycling race in Spain)


Vuelta

(cycling, by ellipsis) the Vuelta a España


Ponto

(historical) Pontus (a region on the south coast of the Black Sea)


Precambriano

From pre- (“pre-”) + Cambriano (“Cambrian”).

(geology) Precambrian (the geological supereon)


Procione

From Latin Procyōn, from Ancient Greek Προκύων (Prokúōn), from πρό (pró, “before”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”), in reference to it preceding the "Dog Star" Sirius.


Procuste

From Ancient Greek Προκρούστης (Prokroústēs).


Proserpina

From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'corn-thresher'.

der

(Roman mythology) Proserpina or Proserpine


Pulcinella

→ English: Punchinello

→ German: Pulcinell, Pulcinella

→ Spanish: pulchinela

Borrowed from Neapolitan Pulecenella or Puricinella, of uncertain origin, likely related to Latin pūlicem (“flea”, accusative singular of pūlex) or from Late Latin pullicēnus, pullicīnus, diminutive form of pullus (“chicken; young animal”). See pulcino. Compare Sicilian Puricineḍḍa.
Otherwise connected to the proper name Puccio d'Aniello, the name of Named after a peasant from Acerra made famous by an alleged portrait of Ludovico Carracci of which we know an engraving by Carlo Enrico di San Martino, with a face darkened by the countryside sun and a long nose, which gave life to the theatrical character of Pulcinella.

accusative singular of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">pūlex</i>

a character from the commedia dell'arte known for his loud and cunningly playful behavior, native of Naples


Putifarre

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Pūtiphar, from Biblical Hebrew פּוֹטִיפָר (Pōṭīfar), itself from Egyptian 𓇳𓅮𓏙𓅮 (pꜣ-dj-pꜣ-rꜥ)


Quirinale

From Latin [collem] Quirīnālem (“Quirinal hill”). By surface analysis, Quirino (“Quirinus”) + -ale (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).

surf

the Quirinal Hill, one of the Seven hills of Rome

Palazzo del Quirinale
Palazzo del Quirinale#Italian

(metonymically) Ellipsis of Palazzo del Quirinale., the Quirinal Palace in Rome, residence of the President of the Italian Republic

Palazzo del Quirinale

(by extension, politics) the presidency of the Italian Republic


Reggenza

Alternative letter-case form of reggenza


Renania-Palatinato

Rhineland-Palatinate (a state of Germany)


Renzo

a diminutive of the male given name Lorenzo


Rialto

Blend of rio (“river, stream”) + alto (“high”).

blend

(Venice) an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice famous for its market and bridge


Violetta

From violetta (“violet”) or a diminutive form of the older given name Viola. Name of the supposedly French heroine of Verdi's opera La traviata (1853).


Riviera

A district of Ticino canton, Switzerland


Rosmunda

a female given name, equivalent to English Rosamund


Rufo

Rufus, either of two persons mentioned in the New Testament

a male given name, equivalent to English Rufus


Saladino

Borrowed from Arabic صَلَاح الدِّين (ṣalāḥ ad-dīn).

bor+

صَلَاح الدِّين


Saladino

صَلَاح الدِّين


Groninga

Groningen (a province of the Netherlands)


Sallustio

a male given name, equivalent to English Sallust


Salomè

a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Salome


Santippe

From Latin Xanthippē, from Ancient Greek Ξανθίππη (Xanthíppē).


Sapienza

Wisdom, Book of Wisdom (deuterocanonical book of the Bible)


Scamandro

From Latin Scamander, from Ancient Greek Σκάμανδρος (Skámandros).


Vaucluse

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

Vaucluse (a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Vaucluse (a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)


Angelino

From Angelo (“a male given name”) + -ino (diminutive suffix).


Angelino

a surname transferred from the given name


Dusseldorf

Unadapted borrowing from German Düsseldorf.

ubor

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

Düsseldorf (the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)


Mimi

a diminutive of the female given name Maria


Mimi

a diminutive of the male given name Domenico


Adami

Patronymic surname from the personal name Adamo (“Adam”).


Ovidi

Patronymic surname from the personal name Ovidio.


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”).

bor

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


Abba

Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian writer and patriot

Marta Abba, Italian actress


Valle dei Re

Valley of the Kings (Egyptian valley known for its tombs)


Sebastopoli

Sevastopol (a port city in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia)


Giglio

From Latin Igilium, from Ancient Greek Αἰγύλιον (Aigúlion).

it:Giglio (disambigua)
it:Isola del Giglio

an island (in the province of Grosseto) off the coast of Tuscany


Seicelle

Alternative form of Seychelles: Seychelles (an archipelago and country in East Africa, in the Indian Ocean)


Seleuco

From Latin Seleucus, from Ancient Greek Σέλευκος (Séleukos).


OMPI

w:it:Organizzazione Mondiale per la Proprietà Intellettuale

(UN) Initialism of Organizzazione Mondiale per la Proprietà Intellettuale (“WIPO”).


Sigfrido

From Old High German Sigifrid, from Proto-Germanic *Segafriþuz.

(rare) a male given name from Proto-Germanic


Sigismondo

a male given name, equivalent to English Sigismund


Silla

Lucius Cornelius Sulla
w:Lucius Cornelius Sulla


Slesia

Silesia (a historical region in Central Europe, shared between the Czech Republic and Poland)


Sofonia

der

Hebrew צְפַנְיָה


Soletta

Solothurn (a city and canton of Switzerland)


Sorrento

From Latin Surrentum, of uncertain origin.

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


Tiro

Borrowed from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”), from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros) from Phoenician [Term?]; see Tyre for more information.

Tyre (an ancient city-state in Phoenicia)

Tyre (a port city, the capital of Tyre district, Lebanon)


Spartaco

From Latin Spartacus, from Ancient Greek Σπάρτακος (Spártakos).


Stanislao

a male given name, equivalent to English Stanislaus


Alioth

Alioth, the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major


Sud Tirolo

(rare) South Tyrol (a province of Trentino, north-eastern Italy)


Tarquinia

From Latin Tarquinii, from Etruscan 𐌕𐌀𐌓𐌖𐌗𐌍𐌀 (taruxna).


Tartaro

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).


Tebe

Thebes (ancient Egyptian city; modern Luxor)

Thebes (a modern city in the regional unit of Boeotia, in central Greece)


Temistocle

From Ancient Greek Θεμιστοκλῆς (Themistoklês).


terronia

From terrone + -ia, after country names like Italia (“Italy”), Francia (“France”), Germania (“Germany”), and so on.

(slang, derogatory, chiefly northern Italy, sometimes capitalized) Southern Italy


Tersicore

From Ancient Greek Τερψιχόρη (Terpsikhórē).


Tersite

From Ancient Greek Θερσίτης (Thersítēs).


Tessaglia

From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλία (Thessalía).


Tiberiade

Latin Tiberias, itself from the Emperor's name Tiberius (in Ancient Greek Τιβέριος (Tibérios)) with the suffix Ancient Greek -άς (-ás, “female patronymic or relational suffix”)


Tigri

From Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris).


Tiresia

From Ancient Greek Τειρεσίας (Teiresías).


Tisifone

From Ancient Greek Τισιφόνη (Tisiphónē).


Tolomeo

From Ancient Greek Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaîos).


Tolone

Toulon (a city, the prefecture of the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


Tolosa

From Latin Tolōsa, probably of Gaulish origin.

Toulouse (the capital city of the Haute-Garonne department, France; capital city of the region of Occitanie)


Tolstoj

Borrowed from Russian Толсто́й (Tolstój).

bor+

Толсто́й Толстой#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian surname Толсто́й (Tolstój)


Tonio

a diminutive of the male given name Antonio


Treviri

Trier (a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)


Tucidide

From Ancient Greek Θουκυδίδης (Thoukudídēs), from θεός (theós, “god”) + κῦδος (kûdos, “glory”).


Tullio

From Latin Tullius. Akin to Portuguese Túlio.


Uffizi

Literally, “Offices” (plural of uffizio), as this was the building's original function.


Ulma

Ulm (a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany)


Venceslao

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Wenceslaus


Videotel

an Italian videotex service utilising the telephone network, popular before and alongside the World Wide Web


Viminale

Palazzo del Viminale
w:it:Palazzo del Viminale

Italian Ministry of the Interior (housed in the Palazzo del Viminale)


visigotico

(history) Visigothic (the Gothic dialect spoken by the Visigoths)


Vittorio

Arabic: فيتوريو (fītūriyū)

Greek: Βιττόριο (Vittório)

Japanese: ヴィットリオ (vittorio)

a male given name, equivalent to English Victor


Viviana

a female given name, equivalent to English Vivian, Vivien, or Vivienne


CGIL

w:it:Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro

Initialism of Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro.


Confindustria

Acronym of Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana.


ENAL

Initialism of Ente nazionale assistenza lavoratori (“National Workers' Assistance Agency”).


Enalotto

Blend of ENAL (Ente Nazionale Assistenza Lavoratori) + lotto


NAP

Nuclei Armati Proletari
w:it:Nuclei Armati Proletari


Rai

the Italian state radio and television broadcaster


Vormazia

Synonym of Worms, Worms (a city in Germany)


torre Eiffel

Named after its architect Gustave Eiffel.


Gola

A topographic surname from gola (“ravine”) or a variant of Cola.


Francisci

Patronymic from the personal name Francesco.

a surname transferred from the given name


Abano Terme

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


Ausonia

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


Isidori

Patronymic from the personal name Isidoro.


Cilento

A historical region in Salerno, Campania


Logudoro

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


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.

der

بِنْتُ الرِّياح


Saticula

a Samnite city in Southern Italy, now part of Sant'Agata de' Goti


Schio

Schio (a town in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)


Abbadia

used in several toponyms, indicating places founded by or near an abbey


Columbo

English: Columbo

Likely from or related to Latin columbus.


Nibali

Vincenzo Nibali, Italian cyclist


Inzaghi

Filippo Inzaghi, Italian football/soccer player


Itala

From Latin ītala [versiō] (“Latin [version]”).


Montecristo

English: Montecristo

French: Montecristo

Isola di Montecristo
Isola di Montecristo#Italian

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


Iosè

a female given name, equivalent to English Josephine


Scala

English: Scala

From the noun scala (“ladder”). Most prevalent in Campania and Liguria.


Initialism of MoVimento 5 Stelle, an Italian populist political party


Ludovica

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louise, Louisa


Moita

French: Moïta

A city and commune of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France


Giza

From Egyptian Arabic اَلْجِيزَة (il-Gīza), of uncertain origin.


Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist


Stentore

From Latin Stentōrem, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr).


Uranie

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐρανία (Ouranía).

bor+

[…]e Uranìe m’aiuti col suo coro[…]

1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIX”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], line 41; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

And with her choir Urania must assist me,


Bergoglio

A village in Piedmont, Italy near Alessandria


Carli

Gian Rinaldo Carli, Italian writer and historian


Cocito

From Latin Cōcȳtus, from Ancient Greek Κωκυτός (Kōkutós, “lamentation”).


Acquacheta

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


Acri

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


Alberigo

Alternative form of Alberico: a male given name, equivalent to English Aubrey


Alichino

Possibly a corruption of Arlecchino (“Harlequin”).

a fictitious devil from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Alighieri

From the name Alighiero, Aldighiero derived from Old High German adal (“noble”) + gēr (“spear”). Compare Italian Berlinguer.


Anselmuccio

Anselmo della Gherardesca
w:it:Anselmo della Gherardesca

a male given name, but especially that of Anselmo della Gherardesca


Aretusa

From Ancient Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Aréthousa, literally “The Waterer”).

a female given name, equivalent to English Arethusa


Asdente

the nickname of a medieval Italian magician and soothsayer


Aventino

the Aventine Hill (one of the Seven hills of Rome)


Barbariccia

From barba (“beard”) + riccia (“curly”), literally “Curly Beard”.

af

a fictional devil from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Beccheria

a surname from Lombard or Piedmontese, an alternative form of Beccaria


Beccaria

Borrowed from Lombard beccaria or Piedmontese becarìa, bëccarìa (“butchershop”). Cognate with English butchery, French boucherie, and Sicilian vuccirìa, among others. Doublet of beccheria and Vucciria.

(masculine only) Cesare Beccaria, 18th-century Italian criminologist and philosopher


Bianco

a male given name, feminine equivalent Bianca especially popular in Tuscany


Bianco

a surname transferred from the given name


Bonatti

Guido Bonatti, 13th century Italian astronomer


Bonifazio

a male given name from Latin, variant of Bonifacio, equivalent to English Boniface


Anfiarao

From Ancient Greek Ἀμφιάραος (Amphiáraos).

(Greek mythology) Amphiaraus / Amphiaraos


Branca

From a nickname related to branca (“paw, claw, hand”).


Brenta

a river that flows through Trentino and Veneto


Bruggia

Borrowed from Old French Bruges, from Old Dutch Bruges, Bruggas, Brugias, probably from brugga (“bridge”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of Bruges, borrowed from Modern French.

Bruges (the capital city of West Flanders, Belgium)


Abraàm

Trasseci l’ombra del primo parente,
d’Abèl suo figlio e quella di Noè,
di Moïsè legista e ubidente;
Abraàm patriarca e Davìd re

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 55–58; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

He [Jesus] drew forth the shade of the First Parent [Adam], and that of his son Abel, and of Noah, of Moses the obedient lawgiver Abraham, patriarch, and David, king


Caccianemico

Verb-object compound, composed of caccia (“to hunt; to drive away”) + nemico (“enemy”).

it-verb-obj

Venedico Caccianemico, 13th-century Italian politician who sold his sister Ghisolabella Caccianemico into prostitution; portrayed by Dante in the Divine Comedy


Calcabrina

Verb-object compound, composed of calca (“stomp, trample”) + brina (“frost”), literally “Frost Stomper”.


Argenti

Filippo Argenti, 13th-century Florentine politician and character in Dante's Inferno


Arunte

a fictional soothsayer in the Divine Comedy


Azzolino

Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja
w:it:Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja

a male given name, most notably that of Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja


Camicione

Camicione de' Pazzi, 13th-century inhabitant of Florence, found in Dante's Inferno


Caprona

A village in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, near Vicopisano


Quarnaro

a bay in the northern Adriatic, now part of Croatia


Camiscione

a surname, alternative form of Camicione


Catalano

Italianized after Sicilian Catalanu, a surname derived from Sicilian catalanu (“related to Catalonia”). Compare catalano. Also see Catala.


Cervia

A town in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy


Ciacco

(rare) a male given name, thought to be a form of Jacopo


Cianfa

(rare) a male given name, most notably that of Cianfa Donati


Ciriatto

Possibly from ciro (an obscure term for “hog, pig”) + -atto (diminutive suffix).


Corneto

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

Former name of Tarquinia (“city in Lazio, Italy”).


Corniglia

A small coastal town in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy


Deianira

Borrowed from Latin Dēianīra, from Ancient Greek Δῃάνειρα (Dēiáneira, literally “hostile to her husband”).


Deidamia

From Ancient Greek Δηϊδάμεια (Dēïdámeia).


Draghignazzo

Possibly a blend of drago (“dragon”) + sghignazzo (“sneer, guffaw”), literally “Sneering Dragon”.

blend

a fictional devil from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Ecuba

From Latin Hecuba, from Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).


Ellera

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


Chiugiana

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


Farfarello

Possibly from Arabic فَرْفَر (farfar, “sprite, goblin”) + -ello (“diminutive suffix”).


Farinata

Manente degli Uberti
w:it:Farinata degli Uberti


Federigo

A variant of Federico that underwent voicing (-c- → -g-).


Fiesole

From Latin Faesulae, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌉𐌐𐌔𐌖𐌋 (vipsul).

A small town in Tuscany, Italy near Florence


Focara

a fictional mountain in the Divine Comedy


Efialte

From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs).

Ephialtes (either the ancient Greek statesman or a mythological Giant)


Gaddo

(rare) a male given name; a short form of Gherardo, Girardo, etc.


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


Galeotto

(rare) a male given name, equivalent to French Galehault


Gallura

A historical region in Sardinia, once an independent state


Gaville

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


Graffiacane

Verb-object compound, composed of graffia (“scratch”) + cane (“dog”), literally “Dog Scratcher” or “Scratcher Dog”.


Innocenti

From innocente (“innocent”), a nickname given to foundlings, especially the ones received into the Ospedale degli Innocenti, in Florence.


Interminei

(rare) a surname, variant of Interminelli


Lamone

a river that flows through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna

A small town in Lugano district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Lanfranchi

Patronymic form of the personal name Lanfranco.


Libicocco

Possibly a blend of libeccio (“libecchio, southwest wind”) + scirocco (“sirocco, southeast wind”), indicating the devil's windlike fury.


Malacoda

From mala (“bad, evil”) + coda (“tail”), literally “Evil Tail”.

af

the leader of a fictional group of devils from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Malebolge

it-proper noun

le Malebolge or il Malebolge f pl or m (sometimes plural only, in variation)

le Malebolge (canonical)
il Malebolge (canonical masculine plural singular)

From male (“bad, evil”) + bolge (“trenches, ditches”), literally “Evil Ditches”.

af

Malebolge (the eighth circle of Hell in the Divine Comedy)


Malebranche

le Malebranche (canonical feminine plural)

From male (“bad, evil”) + branche (“claw, talon”), literally “Evil Claws”.

Malebranche (Divine Comedy)
it:Malebranche

a group of devils from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Malebranche

Unadapted borrowing from French Malebranche.

unadapted borrowing

(masculine only) Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), a French philosopher


Marcabò

a fortress built by the Venetians to defend their trade in the River Po

The plain of the river Po (be extension)


Mirra

Borrowed from Latin Myrrha, from Ancient Greek Μύρρα (Múrrha).

(Greek mythology) Myrrha, daughter of Cyniras and mother of Adonis


Mirra

Probably a metonymic occupational surname for someone who sold myrrh, from mirra (“myrrh”).


Mongibello

Borrowed from Sicilian Muncibbeḍḍu. By fake etyomology believed to be a blend of monte + bello.


Montaperti

Castelnuovo Berardenga
Castelnuovo Berardenga

a place, near the town of Castelnuovo Berardenga in the province of Siena, that was the site of a thirteenth century battle


Montefeltro

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


Nembrotto

From Nimrod, with final devoicing, and the development of an epenthetic -b- and a paragogic -o, perhaps via dialect.

Poi disse a me: «Elli stessi s'accusa;
questi è Nembrotto, per lo cui mal coto
pur un linguaggio nel mondo non s'usa.»

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

Then said to me: "He accuses himself; this one is Nimrod, by whose evil thought one language in the world is not still used."

Noi troviamo per le storie della Bibbia e per quelle degli Asseriani che Nembrotto il gigante fu il primo re, overo rettore e ragunatore di congregazione di genti

1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo, Ⅱ Come per la confusione della torre di Babello si cominciò ad abitare il mondo. [First Book, 2 - How the world started being inhabited due to the confusion of the Tower of Babel]”, in Giovanni Porta, editor, Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], Ugo Guanda, published 1991:

Through the stories of the Bible, and those of the Assyrians, we find that Nimrod the giant was the first king, that is, ruler and gatherer of a congregation of people


Neri

From the apheresis of several medieval personal names, such as Raineri, Guarneri or Maineri.


Neri

a surname transferred from the given name


Niccola

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Nicholas


Osterlicchi

Non fece al corso suo sì grosso velo
di verno la Danoia in Osterlicchi,
né Tanaï là sotto 'l freddo cielo,
com'era quivi […]

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 25–28; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

Along its course, the Danube in Austria during the winter never made such a thick crust as there was here, nor did the Don there, under the cold sky


Palladio

Andrea Palladio, Italian architect


Pentesilea

From Ancient Greek Πενθεσίλεια (Penthesíleia).


Pietrapana

Pania della Croce
w:it:Pania della Croce

an alpine mountain now called Pania della Croce


Pinamonte

it:Pinamonte da Brembate
it:Pinamonte dei Bonacolsi


Pisano

the region surrounding the city of Pisa, Tuscany


Pugliese

English: Pugliese


Romena

a fortress (now in ruin) at Pratovecchio in Tuscany


Pratovecchio

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


Rubicante

From rubicante (“reddening”) or formed from the name of Cante dei Gabrielli (c. 1260–1335), the ruler of Florence who exiled Dante from the city.

a fictional devil from Hell in the Divine Comedy

Cante dei Gabrielli
Dante Alighieri
it:Rubicante


Scarmiglione

From scarmigliare (“to dishevel, to ruffle”) + -one (noun-forming suffix), literally “Disheveled One”.

affix

a fictitious devil from Hell in the Divine Comedy


Semiramìs

Ell’è Semiramìs, di cui si legge
che succedette a Nino e fu sua sposa:
tenne la terra che ’l Soldan corregge.

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

She is Semiramis, of whom we read that she succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse; she held the land which now the Sultan rules.


Setta

a river that flows through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna


Sibilia

From a variant of the female personal name Sibilla.


Sismondi

Patronymic surname from the personal name Sismondo, shortened variant of Sigismondo.


Strofade

(in the plural) Strofades (Greek islands)


Tambernicchi

an old name for Monte Tambura, a mountain in Tuscany


Tebaldello

(rare) a male given name, variant of Tebaldo


Tiralli

medieval spelling of Tirolo (small town)


Tosto

From tosto (“hard-boiled, tough”), a nickname for an obstinate person.


Valdichiana

a large alluvial basin in Tuscany and Umbria


Vitaliano

English: Vitaliano


Donatello

a diminutive of the male given name Donato, also used as a formal given name


IDEM

(finance) Acronym of Italian derivatives market.


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 historical region in Veneto situated in the Dolomites near Belluno


itagliano

A corruption of italiano, where standard /lj/ became [ʎ], a distinct Italian phoneme that is spelled -gli- before vowels.

(humorous, informal, derogatory) ungrammatical or misspelled Italian language


Merano

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

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."

bor+

Langhe (a hilly area in Piedmont, Italy)


Abacuc

Internationalism, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (ḥăḇaqqūq).


Roccella

Probably a habitational surname from any of various places in Italy called Roccella.


Akragas

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀκράγᾱς (Akrágās), whence also Agrigento and Sicilian Girgenti.

ubor

an ancient Greek city, part of modern Agrigento, in Sicily


Ampezzo

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


Andreotti

From the given name Andrea (“Andrew”) with the masculine plural suffix -otti.

Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), Italian statesman and former prime minister of Italy

a surname transferred from the given name


Antelami

Benedetto Antelami, Italian sculptor and architect


Antonioni

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director


Anzio

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


Aporti

Ferrante Aporti, Italian theologian


Appennino

Any of the three sections of the Apennines (in combination)


Aquileia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English


Argan

Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician


Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet

The young countess touched her lute—it had no music; she gathered flowers—they had no sweetness; she turned to the fairy page of Ariosto—but she took no interest in his knights or dames; and at length the day was spent ere she had finished pacing the hall, and imagining all the possible and impossible dangers that could befall Carrara.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Forget Me Not 1833 (in English), Giulietta—A Tale of the Forteeenth Century:


Armani

English: Armani

Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer


Ascona

a lakeside town in canton of Ticino in Switzerland


Asinara

A small island off the coast of Sardinia


Aulenti

Gae Aulenti, Italian architect


Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and prime minister


Bandello

Matteo Bandello, Italian writer


Barletta

A small town 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.


Belfiore

French: Belfiore


Bellinzona

From a Lepontic term meaning “juniper bushes”. First attested in Latin in 590, as Bilitiō, developed into Italian through the accusative Bilitiōnem.

Bellinzona (a municipality and town, the capital of Ticino canton, Switzerland)

Bellinzona (a district of Ticino canton, Switzerland)


Benigni

Roberto Benigni, Italian actor


Benussi

Vittorio Benussi, Italian psychologist


Berengario

a male given name, equivalent to English Berengar


Bernardi

From the given name Bernardo (“Bernard”).


Bernardino

From the given name Bernardo (“Bernard”) + -ino.

a diminutive of the male given name Bernardo, feminine equivalent Bernardina


Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and artist


Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director


Biagi

Patronymic from the personal name Biagio.


Blasi

Shorter – and more Southener – variant of the personal name Blasio, ultimately from Latin Blasius (“Blaise”); non-palatalized variant of Biagio. Compare the equivalent Sicilian Brasi.


Bobbio

A small town in Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna


Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer and poet


Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer


Boezio

Severino Boezio, Roman philosopher


Bolsena

From Latin Volsĭ́nĭī, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌋𐌆𐌍𐌀 (velzna).


Bombieri

Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician


Bompiani

Valentino Bompiani, Italian writer


Borromini

Francesco Borromini, Italian architect


Bracciano

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


Bramante

Bramantean

Donato Bramante, Italian architect


Bregaglia

A small town in Graubünden canton, Switzerland


Broggini

Luigi Broggini, Italian sculptor


Brunelleschi

From Brunello (a masculine given name) + -eschi (plural form of the relation-forming suffix -esco).

Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect


Bruscantini

Sesto Bruscantini, Italian singer


Buscetta

Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mobster


Cabibbo

From Sicilian Cabbibbu, ultimately from Arabic حَبِيب (ḥabīb, “beloved, dear, darling”). Compare also English Habib.


Caccioppoli

Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician


Cadorna

Luigi Cadorna, Italian general


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”).


Camanni

Enrico Camanni, Italian writer


Campanella

Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher and writer


Camuccini

Vincenzo Camuccini, Italian painter


Canavese

a region of north-west Italy mostly in present-day Piedmont


Cannizzaro

From Sicilian Cannizzaru, from Sicilian cannizzaru (“related to somewhere or someone related to reeds or wattle”), from cannizzu (“wattle”), from canna.

A small town in Catania, Sicily, Aci Castello


Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist noted for the Cannizzaro reaction


Canova

Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and painter


Cantimori

Delio Cantimori, Italian historian


Capodistria

From Italian Capo ("Cape") + d' ("of") + Istria ("Istria").


Caporetto

Ultimately from an assumed Latin *Caporētum, *Caprētum, possibly from caper (“goat”).


Caravaggio

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


Carducci

By apheresis from Riccarduccio, a diminutive of Riccardo (“Richard”) obtained by adding -uccio, changed into plural as it is usual for many family names.

Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), Italian poet


Caruso

Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor


Casale

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


Castelli

Si ritrova a pranzo a Squarciarelli, / fettuccine e vino dei Castelli / come ai tempi belli che Pinelli immortalò

1955, “Arrivederci Roma”, Garinei & Giovannini (lyrics), R. Rascel (music):

Ellipsis of Castelli Romani (“a group of towns southeast of downtown Rome”).


Castellitto

Sergio Castellitto, Italian writer


Cavour

Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
w:it:Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour

Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Italian statesman in the movement towards Italian unification


Ceri

A village in Rome, Lazio, Italy, near Cerveteri


Chiasso

→ English: Chiasso

→ French: Chiasso

French: Chiasson

→ German: Chiasso

→ Romansch: Chiasso

From Latin Clasiō, from Lombard Claso (modern Lombard: Ciass).

gloss

modern Lombard: <i class="Latn mention" lang="lmo">Ciass</i>

Chiasso: A village and former commune of Mendrisio, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Ciampi

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian politician and tenth President of Italy


Ciampino

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

it:Aeroporto di Roma-Ciampino
it:Ciampino


Cimabue

pseudonym of "Cenni di Pepo", Italian painter


Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer


Cittadella

any of several locations throughout Italy


Civita

From Latin civitas (“city”), cognate with Italian città.
The name of Civita, Calabria in particular is sometimes hypothesized to be derived from Albanian çift (“couple”) or Albanian qift (“hawk”).


Clodoveo

a male given name, equivalent to English Clovis


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).


Curzio

a male given name, equivalent to English Kurt


Deledda

Borrowed from Sardinian Deledda, possibly from de Ledda (“from Ledda”), an ancient toponym in the area of Sassari nowadays disappeared, but still present as a surname.

Grazia Deledda (1871–1936), Italian writer


Digione

Dijon (the capital city of the Côte-d'Or department, France)


Doglio

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


Druso

a male given name, equivalent to Latin Drusus


Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco, Italian biologist and doctor


Einaudi

Giulio Einaudi Editore, Italian publishers


Fabrizi

Patronymic surname from the personal name Fabrizio.

a surname transferred from the given name


Falcone

English: Falcone

Giovanni Falcone, assassinated Italian judge and magistrate


Falisci

Falisci, an ancient Italic people who lived in what is now Lazio


Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci, Italian writer and journalist


Falloppio

Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist


Farinelli

Giuseppe Farinelli, Italian composer


Fassa

one of the principal mountain valleys in the Dolomites


Ficino

Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher, astrologer etc.


Fieramosca

Ettore Fieramosca
w:it:Ettore Fieramosca

an ancient Italian family, most noted for Ettore Fieramosca


Fiumicino

it:Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino
it:Fiumicino

the principal international airport of Rome


Franchi

Franks (Germanic people who inhabited France etc.)


Franscini

Stefano Franscini, Swiss politician


Galilei

Galileo Galilei, famous Italian scientist and "father of observational astronomy"


Galuppi

Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer


Gandolfo

From Medieval Latin Gundulfus, of Germanic origin, probably from a Lombardic *Gundulf, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiwulfaz.


Gargano

a peninsula on the coast of Puglia (often represented as the spur of the boot of Italy)


Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and patriot

Anita Garibaldi, Italian patriot and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi


Garrone

Matteo Garrone, Italian film maker


Paestum

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


Genserico

(rare) a male given name of mainly historical use


Gianmaria

Gian (shortened form of Giovanni (“John”)) + Maria (“Mary”, also used as a male name in compounds). Cognate with French Jean-Marie.

compound

shortened form of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">Giovanni</i> (“John”)


Gigli

Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor


Gioberti

Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian patriot and phylosopher


Giorgione

the pseudonym of Italian painter "Giorgio Gasparini"


Giornico

A small town in Ticino canton, Switzerland


Goldoni

Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright


Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci, Italian politician, philosopher etc.


Gravina

Uncertain. Possibly from a diminutive of Medieval Latin grava, probably passing through a Occitan/Norman stratum, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”).
Its use is mainly as an habitational surname, derived from several homonymous toponyms in Italy (cfr. Gravina di Catania, Gravina in Puglia).

Gravina di Catania
Gravina in Puglia
it:Gravina


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

the nearby abbey, once famed for frescos by Domenichino and for its Renaissance fortifications

(Roman Catholicism) the monastic order of the abbey, which long preserved certain Greek Orthodox rites


Guglielmi

From the personal name Guglielmo (“William”).


Guicciardini

Francesco Guicciardini, Italian writer and politic


Guinizzelli

Guido Guinizzelli, Italian poet


Guittone

Guittone d'Arezzo
w:it:Guittone d'Arezzo

Guittone d'Arezzo, Italian poet and friar


Giolitti

Giovanni Giolitti (1842–1928), Italian politician and prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy


Ildebrando

Borrowed from Medieval Latin [Term?], from the Lombardic variant of Old High German Hiltibrant, from Proto-Germanic *hildiz (“battle”) + *brandaz (“sword”).

(history) Hildeprand (Longobardic king of Italy)

a male given name, equivalent to English Hildebrand


Ischia

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

Ischia (an island and town Campania, Italy)


Lambretta

→ Portuguese: lambreta

(historical) formerly popular make of motor scooter by Innocenti


Lancisi

Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Italian doctor


Lando

Reduced from any names of Germanic origin containing the element *land (“land, territory”).


Lando

a surname transferred from the given name


Landolfo

From Proto-Germanic *Landawulfaz, from *landą (“land”) and *wulfaz (“wolf”).


Langobardia

either of the two main regions of the Lombard kingdom, now Lombardy


Larderello

A village in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, near Pomarance


Lendava

a small town in the Oltremura statistical region of Slovenia


Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer


Leopardi

Seemigly from the Medieval Latin name Leopardus.

Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Italian poet


Leventina

A district of Ticino canton, Switzerland


Liguori

Patronymic/plural form of a southern variant of the personal name Ligorio.


Locarno

Locarno (a town and municipality of Ticino canton, Switzerland)


Lollobrigida

English: Lollobrigida

French: Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (and sex symbol)


Lombardo

Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese surname, from the noun lombardo.


Lombroso

Cesare Lombroso, Italian anthropologist


Lotario

a male given name, equivalent to English Lothario


Luria

Salvatore Luria, Italian microbiologist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Medicine


Luzzone

a dam (and associated reservoir) in the Blenio district of Ticino


Magadino

A small town near Gambarogno in Ticino canton, Switzerland


Gambarogno

A small town in Ticino canton, Switzerland


Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte, Italian writer, journalist and poet


Malpighi

→⇒ Translingual: Malpighia

Marcello Malpighi, Italian doctor


Manfredo

From the Proto-Germanic elements *mann- (“man, human being”) and *friþuz (“peace”).

a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Manfred


Manno

Possibly from Latin mannus, or Proto-Germanic *mann-.


Mannoia

Fiorella Mannoia, Italian singer


Mantegazza

Diminutive of mantega, from Latin mantica.


Manzoni

There are several hypotheses:
* from manzo (“steer”), as an occupational surname for cow breeders;
* from Latin mānsus (“remained”, later “tame”), referring to a land worker, or the related Italian medieval given name Manso;
* from Provençal.

Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist


Marenzio

Luca Marenzio, Italian composer


Mariangela

Maria (“Mary”) + Angela. Cognate with French Marie-Ange.


Marsili

an undersea volcano in the Tyrrhenian Sea


Marzio

From Latin Mārtius (“pertaining to Mars”), derived from Mārs.


Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer


Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor


Matteotti

From the given name Matteo (“Matthew”) with the masculine plural suffix -otti.


Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot


Mentana

A town in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy


Mercalli

Habitational surname from the village of Mercallo, in Lombardy.


Mercantini

Luigi Mercantini, Italian poet


Mesolcina

a mountain valley in the Ticino and Grigioni cantons of Switzerland


Messapi

From Ancient Greek Μεσσάπιος (Messápios).


Meucci

By aphesis of Bartolomeucci or Romeucci, patronymics derived from the pluralization of given names Bartolomeo and Romeo + -uccio (diminutive suffix). Compare e.g. Colucci.

(masculine only) Antonio Meucci (1808–1889), Italian inventor


Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor


Modugno

Domenico Modugno, Italian singer


Mondadori

Arnaldo Mondadori, Italian publisher


Monna

a mountain peak in the province of Frosinone in Lazio


Monreale

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


Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine


Montanelli

Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist


Monteceneri

A small town in Lugano district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Montessori

Maria Montessori, Italian medical doctor, educator and author


Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer


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.


Morandi

→ Russian: Мора́нди (Morándi)


Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Italian composer


Munari

Occupational surname, from Venetan munaro (“miller”). Compare mugnaio.


Muratori

Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and writer


Musatti

Cesare Musatti, Italian psychologist


Muti

English: Muti

Ornella Muti, Italian actress


Nicolucci

Pluralized from Nicoluccio, a pet name from Nicola (“Nicholas”) + -uccio (diminutive suffix). Later yielded the aphetic form Colucci.


Nitti

English: Nitti


Norberto

a male given name, equivalent to English Norbert


Oltresava

Central Sava (statistical region of Slovenia)


Ostarrichi

the early inhabitants of present-day Austria


Pagliaro

Occupational surname for someone who gathered or used straw, from paglia (“straw”) + -aro.


Paleoveneti

From paleo- + Veneti, from Latin Veneti, of uncertain origin.

(historical) Veneti, an ancient tribe of northeastern Italy and Slovenia


Palmi

A small town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria


Palumbo

English: Palumbo


Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (“film director, journalist etc.”)


Pausini

Laura Pausini, Italian singer


Pavone

Italianized from Sicilian Pavuni, a surname derived from pavuni. Cf. Pavone Canavese and Pavullo nel Frignano.

Rita Pavone, Italian actress and singer


Peano

Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Italian mathematician


Pellico

Silvio Pellico, Italian writer


Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer


Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer


Pezzali

Max Pezzali, Italian singer


Piacentini

From piacentino (“someone from Piacenza”).


Piccinni

Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer


Pinturicchio

nickname of the Italian painter "Bernardino di Betto Betti"


Pisacane

Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot


Pomezia

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


Pompilio

a surname transferred from the given name


Pontresina

A small town in Grigioni canton, Switzerland


Poschiavino

a river that flows from Switzerland into Lombardy


Poschiavo

A village in Grigioni canton, Switzerland


Prodi

Romano Prodi, Italian economist and politician


Proietti

Luigi Proietti, Italian actor and comedian


Capo Peloro

a promontory on the north-east of Sicily in the province of Messina


Ramazzotti

Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer


Ravaglioli

Armando Ravaglioli, Italian writer


Respighi

Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer


Righi

Augusto Righi, Italian physician


Rigi

A mountain in Lucerna canton, Switzerland


Rocciamelone

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


Romagnoli

From romagnolo (“someone from Romagna”).


Rosmini

Antonio Rosmini, Italian philosopher


Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director


Rossini

Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer


Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia, Italian physician, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics


Ruffini

English: Ruffini


Saffi

Aurelio Saffi, Italian patriot


Salieri

Antonio Salieri, Italian composer


Sanremo

From a contraction of Sant'Eremo (“Holy Hermitage”), through Ligurian San Rœmu, Sanrœmu. 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


Sanremo

(by extension) the Sanremo Music Festival, annually held in this town


Santoni

English: Santoni

French: Santoni


Satta

Melissa Satta, Italian showgirl


Savinia

Savinja (statistical region of Slovenia)


Scarlatti

any of several of a family of Italian composers


Sgarbi

Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian art critic


Siculi

the Tjeker or Tjekker, one of the Sea Peoples


Silvretta

a group of mountains in the Alps on the border of Switzerland and Austria


Simi

Syme (an island in the Dodecanese, Greece)


Simi

→ English: Simi


Sobrero

Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist


Sordi

Alberto Sordi, Italian cinema actor


Sopraceneri

the part of Ticino to the north of the Monte Ceneri pass


Sottoceneri

the part of Ticino to the south of the Monte Ceneri pass


Spallanzani

Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian naturalist


Speri

Tito Speri, Italian patriot


Spoleto

From Late Latin Spōlētum, a form of Latin Spōlētium.


Strabone

Borrowed from Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn).


Stupinigi

a part of Nichelino containing a collection of ornate hunting lodges


Surselva

From Romansch for "above the forest," from Latin super + silva.

A district of Grigioni canton, Switzerland


Tartaglia

From tartaglia, inflection of tartagliare (“to stutter”).

a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte


Tartaglia

Niccolò Tartaglia, a 16th century Italian mathematician


Telesio

Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and naturalist


Testaccio

Inherited from Latin testaceus, from testa.


Tiburtino

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


Tiepolo

Giambattista Tiepolo, famous Italian painter


Todi

From Latin Tuder, from Etruscan 𐌕𐌖𐌕𐌄𐌓𐌄 (tutere).


Torlonia

Borrowed from French Tourlonias, itself from Occitan.

quote-journal

2024 August 1, Pierre Barthélémy, “La fabuleuse collection Torlonia prend ses quartiers au Louvre”, in Le Monde, →ISSN:
Il était une fois un jeune Auvergnat prénommé Marin qui, comme dans les contes de fées, partit de presque rien pour finir riche et fonder une dynastie de princes, sans même avoir besoin pour cela d’un chat botté. Né en 1725 dans un village du Puy-de-Dôme, il arrive à Rome un quart de siècle plus tard, s’y établit comme drapier, puis comme prêteur sur gages. Et, dans cette Italie qui l’adopte, Marin Tourlonias se mue en Marino Torlonia.
(please add an English translation of this quotation)

a surname from French [in turn from Occitan]


Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini, Italian orchestra conductor


Tremiti

An archipelago in the Adriatic Sea, north of the Gargano peninsula


Ughi

Uto Ughi, Italian musician


Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian writer and poet


Vanvitelli

Luigi Vanvitelli (1700

Caspar van Wittel (1652–1736), Dutch painter, father of Luigi


Vasari

Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and art historian


Venoge

A river in Switzerland that flows into Lake Geneva


Verga

From verga (“crook”), possibly in reference to the job of a shepherd.

Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), Italian writer


Versace

English: Versace

From Koine Greek Βαρσάκις (Barsákis) via Latin Bersacius, to uncertain derivation, possibly from Old Armenian վարսակ (varsak)

Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer


Verscio

A small town in Locarno district, Switzerland


Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator


Vilfredo

a male given name, equivalent to English Wilfred


Vindonissa

(the site of) a Roman fort near Windisch in Switzerland


Vittoriano

Vittorio Emanuele II d'Italia
w:it:Vittorio Emanuele II d'Italia

the monument to Vittorio Emanuele II d'Italia in Rome


Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer


Viviani

Patronymic surname from the personal name Viviano.


Vogorno

A village in Locarno district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Voltaggio

A village in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy


Volterra

From Latin Volaterrae, from Etruscan 𐌅𐌄𐌋𐌀𐌈𐌓𐌉 (velaθri).


Volterra

Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physician


Zanazzo

Giggi Zanazzo, Italian poet etc.


Zarlino

Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer


Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director


Acquarossa

the administrative capital of Ticino in Switzerland


Appenzello

Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Appenzell Inner Rhodes#English

A village, the capital of Appenzell Inner Rhodes canton, Switzerland.

A historic canton in the northeast of Switzerland that split up into the two modern half-cantons in 1597.


Arbedo

A small town in Ticino canton, Switzerland


Basodino

a mountain in Ticino on the border with Italy


Bedretto

A village in Leventina district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Biasca

A small town in Riviera district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Bioggio

A small town in Lugano district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Blenio

A small town and district of Ticino canton, Switzerland


Borrani

Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter


Breggia

A small town in Mendrisio district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Brissago

A small town in Locarno district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Cabrini

Francesca Saverio Cabrini, Italian religious sister


Carlino

A small town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia


Casio

Casium (titular see in Lower Egypt in north Africa)


Castagnola

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

af

any of several villages throughout Italy


Cattaneo

From Late Latin capitāneus (“captain”), from caput (“head”).

(chiefly northern Italy, central Italy) a surname


Centovallina

(Switzerland) the railway/railroad from Domodossola in Italy to Locarno in Switzerland


Ceschi

Shortened form of the surname Franceschi.


Cevio

A small town in Vallemaggia district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Vallemaggia

A district of Ticino canton, Switzerland


Diveria

an Alpine river that flows from Switzerland into Italy


Faido

A small town in Leventina district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Gaggiolo

an area around the town of Cantello in Lombardy

any of several rivers and villages throughout Italy


Giubiasco

A small town in Bellinzona district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Lonza

A river in Switzerland that is a tributary of the Rhone


Muggio

A village in Mendrisio district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Olbia

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


Osogna

A small town in Riviera district, Ticino canton, Switzerland


Ossola

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


Pellegrini

Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer


Serravalle

(often in combination) any of several places throughout Italy


Tasso

Torquato Tasso, Italian writer


Tresa

a river that flows from Ticino to Lombardy


Verzasca

a river, and associated valley, in Ticino


Olbia-Tempio

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


Alvernia

From Latin Arvernia, from Arverni, the name of a Gaulish tribe.


Deodato

From Latin Deodātus, from Adeodatus (“given by God”) or Deusdedit (“God has given”).


Buscemi

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


Buscemi

Derived from Etymology 1. Doublet of Buscema.


Carelia

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)

Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)


Marmolada

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


Galvano

a male given name, equivalent to English Gawain or Gavin


Gattinara

A town in the province of Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy


Gian Marco

From Gian (shortened form of Giovanni (“John”)) + Marco (“Mark”). Cognate with French Jean-Marc.


Anfitrite

From Ancient Greek Ἀμφιτρίτη (Amphitrítē).


Conisberga

(historical) Königsberg (former name of Kaliningrad)


Eco

Umberto Eco, Italian writer and phylosopher


Frederico

From Latin Frederīcus, Friderīcus, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Friþurīks (“peace king, peaceful ruler”).


Mar Morto

Dead Sea (a highly saline lake in Israel, Palestine and Jordan)


Vladimiro

a male given name, equivalent to English Vladimir


SCU

English: SCU

sacra corona unita
sacra corona unita#Italian

Abbreviation of sacra corona unita, the SCU or Puglia mafia.


Fær Øer

Sardinian: Fær Øer

Sicilian: Ìsuli Fær Øer

Venetan: Ixołe Fær Øer

Unadapted borrowing from Danish Færøerne.

ubor

the Faroe Islands, a Danish Atlantic overseas territory comprising a group of North Sea islands, between Scotland, Iceland and Norway


Gheddafi

From Libyan Arabic قدافي (gaddāfi, gaḏḏāfi), from Arabic قَذَّافِيّ (qaḏḏāfiyy).

A surname from Arabic, equivalent to English Gaddafi.

(masculine only) Muammar Gaddafi (c. 1942–2011), revolutionary and leader of Libya.


Araldo

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Harjawaldaz.

a male given name, equivalent to English Harold.


Meda

A town in Monza e Brianza, Lombardy, Italy


Nigro

Variant of Negro; otherwise italianization of the surname Nìguru, from Sicilian nìguru (“black”).


Monte Cassino

a rocky hill near the town of Cassino; the site of the first Benedictine monastery


Marano Lagunare

A small town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia


Primiero

a mountain valley near Trentino in Trentino-Alto Adige


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.


Sauris

A village in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Val di Sole

an alpine valley in the province of Trentino in Trentino-Alto Adige


Guardia di Finanza

the agency of the Italian armed forces responsible for fighting financial crime, tax evasion and smuggling


GdF

Guardia di Finanza
Guardia di Finanza#Italian

(armed forces) Initialism of Guardia di Finanza. (GdF)

the arm of the Italian armed forces responsible for fighting financial crime, tax evasion and smuggling


Borgo Vodice

a part of Sabaudia in the province of Latina in Lazio


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.


Garfagnana

a historic region of central Italy within the modern province of Lucca in Tuscany


Lunigiana

a historic region of Italy in parts of modern Tuscany and Liguria


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


Vetulonia

Castiglione della Pescaia
Castiglione della Pescaia

a part of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany; once an Etruscan town


Castiglione della Pescaia

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

A small town in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy


Volsinii

an ancient Etruscan town near modern Bolsena


Scala Nuova

Literally, “new port”, equivalent to modern Italian scalo nuovo. Given to the city by Genoese and Venetian traders in the Middle Ages.

Former name of Kuşadası: A city in Turkey


Longhena

A town in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy


Murano

From the Roman name, Latin Amurianum, a port of Altinum.


Apecchio

A town in Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy


Bisiacaria

A region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 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


Cles

A small town in Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige


Scutari

Shkodër (a city in northwestern Albania)


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).

Gallipoli, Gelibolu (a town and municipality of Turkey)


Legnano

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


liventino

a dialect of Venetan spoken in the north of Veneto


Metaponto

From Latin Metapontum, from Ancient Greek Μεταπόντιον (Metapóntion).

a small town (ancient Greek colony) in the Matera province of Basilicata


Muggia

A small town in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia


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)


Nove

Aldo Nove (pseudonym of Antonio Centanin; born 1967), Italian writer and poet


Oltrepò Pavese

the southern part of the province of Pavia


Oderzo

From Latin Opitergium, borrowed through Venetan.


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)

Repubblica di Salò
Repubblica di Salò#Italian

(World War II) Salo Republic; Ellipsis of Repubblica di Salò (“Republic of Salo”).


Sonnino

Sidney Sonnino, Italian politician


Soresina

A small town in Cremona, Lombardy, Italy


Valsesia

an alpine valley in the Vercelli and Novara provinces of Piemonte


Versilia

a fashionable, coastal region of northern Tuscany


Antiappennino

any of several mountain ranges separated from the true Apennines by deep, wide depressions


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


Adda

a tributary of the river Po in northern Italy


Erba

A town in the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy


Fagnano

a district of Gaggiano, historically part of Milan


Issime

From Medieval Latin Ixima, from the earlier Roman name, Latin Axima, a name said to be of Celtic origin (compare Axona or Isca). Compare Alemannic German Eischeme.


Talamona

A small town in Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy


Rovigno

Ultimately from Latin Arupinum (later Ruvinium, Ruginium, also Mons Rubineus); compare Istriot Ruveîgno, Serbo-Croatian Rovinj.


Priene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πριήνη (Priḗnē).


Alfabeto Fonetico Internazionale

International Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet


Negroponte

By rebracketing of the phrase στὸν Εὔριπον ("to Evripos") as στὸ Νεὔριπον ("to Nevripos"), thence Negroponte ("Black Bridge" in Italian) by folk etymology, the bridge being interpreted as the bridge of Chalcis.


TAI

tempo atomico internazionale
w:w:International Atomic Time

Initialism of tempo atomico internazionale (“international atomic time”).


Cosa Nostra

Alternative letter-case form of Cosa nostra


Guadiana

Borrowed from Spanish Guadiana, from Old Spanish Aguadiana, derived from Arabic وَادِي (wādī, “river, valley”) + Latin Anās (ancient name of the river), related to anas (“duck”).

Guadiana (a river in Spain and Portugal)


Lillo

Short form of various surnames such as Paolillo.


Luneburgo

Lüneburg (a town, the capital of Lüneburg district, Lower Saxony, Germany)


Cechia

(rare) Czech Republic, Czechia (a country in Central Europe)


Lini

Patronymic surname from the personal name Lino.


Russo

From the Sicilian surname Russu, from russu (“redhead”). Doublet of Italian Rossi.

a surname; the second most popular surname in Italy


Coppola

Borrowed from Sicilian còppula (“coppola cap”), a metonymic occupational surname for a hatter.


Repubblica di Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia

Republic of North Macedonia
Republic of North Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia, former partially recognised/recognized name of the Republic of North Macedonia


Montalto

From monte (“mountain”) + alto (“high”).

Montalto delle Marche
w:it:Montalto delle Marche

Montalto di Castro
w:it:Montalto di Castro


Alcamo

Borrowed from Arabic الْقَامُوق (al-qāmūq).


Erice

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


Lilibeo

an ancient Roman city in western Sicily on the site of modern Marsala


Segesta

From Latin Segesta, from Ancient Greek Ἔγεστα (Égesta).

an ancient city that was in northwestern Sicily


Sturla

the name of two rivers that flow in Liguria


Patella

From patella (“limpet”), hence either a metonymic occupational surname for someone who collected shell fish, or a nickname for a tenacious or withdrawn person.


Assuero

From Biblical Hebrew אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ (Akhashverósh), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (x-š-y-a-r-š-a /Xšayāršā/, “ruler among kings”), thus a doublet of Italian Artaserse

der

אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ


Durazzo

From Latin Dyrrhachium, from Ancient Greek Δυρράχιον (Durrhákhion). Presumably borrowed through Venetan.


Mar Tirreno

Tyrrhenian Sea (sea to the west of Italy)


Monte Fuji

Borrowed from Japanese 富士山 (ふじさん, Fuji-san), translating the last kanji.

bor+

Mount Fuji (the highest mountain in Japan)


AGI

Abbreviation of Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.


Madre Russia

Calque of Russian Россия-Матушка (Rossija-Matuška).

clq

Россия-Матушка


annamitico

From annamit(a) (“Annamite”) + -ico (“-ic”).


Belisario

Belisarius (a general of the Byzantine Empire)


Carlomagno

Alternative form of Carlo Magno: Charlemagne


Acqua

(astrology) the astrological element Water that comprises the three water signs (Cancro, Scorpione and Pesci)


Terre matte

Southern Italy, especially those parts subject to frequent earthquakes


Zante

From Ancient Greek Ζάκυνθος (Zákunthos), possibly through Latin Zacynthus.


Repubblica Popolare di Lugansk

Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic


domenica in albis

Divine Mercy Sunday (the Sunday after Easter)


Santa Sede

Holy See (episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church)


Virginia Occidentale

West Virginia (a state of the United States)


Gia

English: Gia

a diminutive of the female given names Gianna or Giada, masculine equivalent Gio


Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai (a city and province of Thailand)


Bosnia ed Erzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina#English:_Q225

Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula#English

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English

Bosnia and Herzegovina (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Iolanda

Uncertain:
* either a variant of Violante, from Late Latin Violantes, from Latin viola (“violet”), through Old French Yolande;
* or from Ancient Greek ἴον ἄνθος (íon ánthos, “violet flower”).

der

a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Yolanda


Kasparov

Borrowed from Russian Каспа́ров (Kaspárov), from Armenian Կասպարյան (Kasparyan).

bor+

Каспа́ров Каспаров#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian surname Каспа́ров (Kaspárov)


Maracanaço

Borrowed from Portuguese, from Maracanã (the stadium that hosted the match) plus the suffix -aço.

Lo sentite lo spirito del Maracanaço aleggiare su di noi? Non possiamo fare niente, non possiamo fuggire, lo spirito è potente e non c’è niente che lo fermi. Ragazzi scappate, è l’unico modo per salvarvi, scappate, lo fermerò io, mi metterò io davanti alle telecamere mentre voi tornate alla foresta, vi disperdete, fuggite.

2014, Leonardo Poggi with Miki Fossati and Laura Molina, La mossa del tapiro: una storia di Amazzonia, calcio e amache, Miki Fossati, →ISBN:

(soccer) Maracanaço (final match in the 1950 FIFA World Cup)


Coco

From the Sicilian surname Cocu, from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).


Alvino

From a variant of the personal name Albino.


Violante

From Late Latin Violantes, from Latin viola (“violet”).

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Yolanda


Aversa

A town in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy


Aristarco

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos).

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Aristarchus


Aristarco

a surname transferred from the given name


Terracina

From Latin Terracīna, a form of Tarracīna.


Borgia

the House of Borgia, a noble family from Spain


Carolina del Sud

South Carolina (a state of the United States)


Quarto

a municipality in the province of Naples (Campania)

the letter Q in the Italian spelling alphabet


Cafarnao

From Late Latin Capharnaum, from Ancient Greek Καπερναούμ (Kapernaoúm), from Biblical Hebrew כְּפַר נַחוּם (Kfar Nahum).

uder

כְּפַר נַחוּם

Capernaum, the biblical town in Galilee, archaeological site


Parisi

From the personal name Parisio, a variant of Paride.


Gonzaga

→ English: Gonzaga

→ Spanish: Gonzaga

→ English: Gonzaga

→ Portuguese: Gonzaga

→ Cebuano: Gonzaga

→ English: Gonzaga

→ Tagalog: Gonzaga

→ English: Gonzaga

→ Portuguese: Gonzaga

→ English: Gonzaga

a habitational surname, named for the town


Cerrito

Topographic surname, from Sicilian cirritu (“Turkey oak grove”); compare cerreto.


Pigafetta

Antonio Pigafetta, Italian scholar and explorer


Ducati

From ducato.
* (company): Named after the company founder, Antonio Cavalieri Ducati.


Ducati

English: Ducati

a company that designs and builds motorcycles


Piccolo

A nickname from piccolo (“small, little”).


Nazianzo

Borrowed from Late Latin Nazianzus, from Ancient Greek Ναζιανζός (Nazianzós).

(historical) Nazianzus (an ancient town in Cappadocia, in modern Turkey; modern Nenezigözü)


Carolina del Nord

North Carolina (a state of the United States)


Carcassona

Carcassonne (a city in Aude, Occitania, France)


Marsigliese

the Marseillaise (French national anthem)


Zannone

English: Zannone

Zannone (an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, situated near the coast of Lazio)


Quirino

a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Quirina


Nimega

Nijmegen (a city and municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands)


Cossovo

Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Mori

Borrowed from Japanese 森 (Mori) or 毛利 (Mōri).


Mori

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

A comune of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy


San Remo

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of Sanremo


Torricelli

English: Torricelli

Most likely from Italian meaning little tower:[[torre]] for tower and diminutive suffix [[cello]] in the plural.

:Template:Most likely from Italian meaning little tower:torre for tower and diminutive suffix cello in the plural.

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian scientist


Schiaparelli

English: Schiaparelli

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer


Agnesi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician


Fo

winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature


Golgi

Camillo Golgi, Italian scientist, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine


Redi

Francesco Redi, Italian scientist


Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer


Lussu

Emilio Lussu, Italian politician, soldier and writer


Venditti

Antonello Venditti, Italian singer and songwriter


Cignaroli

Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter


Vezzali

Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer


Galiazzo

A variant of the personal name Galeazzo.


Errigo

Arianna Errigo, Italian fencer


De Chirico

Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter


Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter


Balla

Originally a nickname meaning "rascal," from balosso (“dumb, stupid, harebrained”).

Giacomo Balla, Italian painter


Mancini

From mancino (“left-handed”), derived from manco (“imperfect, maimed”).


Santoro

From Latin (fēstum omnium) sānctōrum (“All Saints Day, feast of all saints”)


De Santis

English: DeSantis


Scialpi

Giovanni Scialpi, Italian actor and singer


Conte

Antonio Conte, Italian football/soccer trainer


Monti

Mario Monti, Italian politician and economist


Bixio

Ligurian bixio (“gray, grey”), now spelled bixo, probably from Vulgar Latin *bysseus, from Latin byssus (“linen”). Compare variants adapted in pronunciation, such as Bisio. Doublet of bigio.

Nino Bixio (1821–1873), Italian patriot


Segni

Habitational surname from Segni in Lazio, from Latin Signia.

Antonio Segni, Italian politician and fourth President of Italy


Saragat

Giuseppe Saragat, Italian politician and fifth President of Italy


Pertini

Sandro Pertini, Italian politician and seventh President of Italy


Scalfaro

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian politician and ninth President of Italy


Napolitano

A habitational surname from Neapolitan napulitano (“Neapolitan”).


Mattarella

Sergio Mattarella, Italian politician and twelfth President of Italy


De Nicola

Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician and first President of Italy


Roncalli

Giuseppe Angelo Roncalli, Italian pope (John XXIII)


Silvestri

→ English: Silvestri

Daniele Silvestri, an Italian singer


Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter


Merisi

Michelangelo Merisi, Italian painter, better known as Caravaggio


Guariento

Guariento di Arpo, Italian painter


Boito

Arrigo Boito, Italian writer


Tartini

Giuseppe Tartini, Italian musician and composer


Duse

Eleonora Duse, Italian actress


Cesarotti

Melchiorre Cesarotti, Italian writer


Littizzetto

Luciana Littizzetto, Italian comedy actress


Cristoforetti

Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut


Parmitano

Luca Parmitano, Italian astronaut


Mercadante

Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer


Acerbi

Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian naturalist and explorer


Pulci

Luigi Pulci, Italian poet


Majorana

Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist


Segrè

Emilio Segrè (1905–1989), Italian physicist

Alternative form of Segre: a Jewish surname


Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physician


Zichichi

Antonino Zichichi, Italian physician


Curiel

Eugenio Curiel, Italian patriot and physician


Ovadia

From Hebrew עובדיה (“servant of Yahweh”).

Moni Ovadia, Italian actor, writer and theatrical author


Almagià

Roberto Almagià, Italian naturalist and explorer


Foà

Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor and film director


Lerner

Gad Lerner, Italian journalist and anchorman


Mimun

Clemente Mimun, Italian journalist


Modiano

Sami Modiano, Italian writer


Pincherle

Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician


Treves

Emilio Treves, Italian journalist and editor


Greggio

Ezio Greggio, Italian anchorman and comedian


Bonolis

Paolo Bonolis, Italian anchorman and comedian


Venier

Borrowed from Venetan Venier, probably from Latin Venerius, a given name from that of the goddess Venus (whence Venere). Doublet of Venerio.

Mara Venier (born 1950), Italian actress and television presenter


Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist and patriot


Tremonti

Giulio Tremonti, Italian politician


Natta

Giulio Natta, Italian chemist


Galvani

Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and anatomist


Murri

Augusto Murri, Italian doctor


Bersani

Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian politician


Casini

Pier Ferdinando Casini, Italian politician


Collina

Pierluigi Collina, Italian football/soccer referee


Mennea

Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete


Abbagnale

Giuseppe Abbagnale, Italian rower


Chechi

Jury Chechi, Italian gymnast


D'Inzeo

Raimondo D'Inzeo, Italian athlete


Dibiasi

Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver


Cagnotto

Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver


Dallapé

Francesca Dallapé, Italian diver


Nadi

Nedo Nadi, Italian fencer


Trillini

Giovanna Trillini, Italian fencer


Satriani

Joe Satriani, American guitarist of Italian descent


Bellucci

Monica Bellucci, Italian actress


Dossi

Carlo Dossi, Italian writer


Tarchetti

Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, Italian writer


Serao

Matilde Serao, Italian writer


Tozzi

Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer


Capuana

Luigi Capuana, Italian writer


Luzi

Mario Luzi, Italian writer


Gozzano

Guido Gozzano, Italian poet


Marrone

Tito Marrone, Italian poet


Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer and poet


Soffici

Ardengo Soffici, Italian writer and poet


Depero

Fortunato Depero, Italian painter and sculptor


Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer and poet


Pozzuoli

From Latin Puteoli, cf. Neapolitan Pezzulo.


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.


Trani

A town in Barletta-Andria-Trani, 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


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”).


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

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia#English

A town in Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Modica

Borrowed from Sicilian Mòdica, from Latin Motyca.


Agogna

a river that flows in Piedmont and Lombardy


Enza

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


Enza

From Enzo + -a, ultimately of Germanic origin.

a female given name, female equivalent of Enzo


Chiese

From Latin Clesis, variation of Clūsius.


Panaro

Metonymic occupational surname for a baker, from Latin panarium (“bread basket”).


Agri

(historical) an ancient people dwelling along the Maeotian Swamp


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.


Dora Baltea

a river that flows in Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont


Magra

a river that flows in Tuscany and Liguria


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).


Mannu

the name of two rivers that flow in Sardinia


Renzi

Originally a plural of Renzo, a diminutive of the male given name Lorenzo (“Lawrence”).

Matteo Renzi (born 1975), Italian politician


Letta

Enrico Letta, Italian politician


Mogherini

English: Mogherini


Bonino

Emma Bonino, Italian politician


Aru

Fabio Aru, Italian cyclist


Fornaciari

Adelmo Fornaciari, Italian singer


Poerio

Alessandro Poerio, Italian patriot and poet


Sauro

Nazario Sauro, Italian patriot


Oberdan

Guglielmo Oberdan, Italian patriot


Salata

Francesco Salata, Italian politician


Rismondo

Francesco Rismondo, Italian patriot


Combi

Carlo Combi, Italian patriot


Spinelli

Altiero Spinelli, Italian politician and writer


Zermagna

The river Zrmanja that flows in Croatia.


Rio delle Amazzoni

rio delle Amazzoni (canonical masculine)


Lemene

Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia

a river that flows in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia


De Amicis

LL-Q652 (ita)-Yiyi-Scuole Bossi-De Amicis.wav

Edmondo De Amicis, Italian writer


Fogazzaro

Antonio Fogazzaro, Italian writer


Turati

Filippo Turati, Italian politician


Collodi

Carlo Collodi, Italian writer


Rapisardi

Mario Rapisardi, Italian poet


D'Acquisto

Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian policeman and martyr


Vergerio

Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Italian bishop


Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter


Santorio

Santorio Santorio, Italian physiologist


Peneo

From Latin Peneus, from Ancient Greek Πηνειός (Pēneiós).


Monna Lisa

Literally, “milady Lisa”, referring to Lisa Gherardini (1479–1551), the model.

the Mona Lisa (painting by Leonardo da Vinci)


Ferragamo

Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian designer


Biagiotti

From the plural of Biagio (“Blaise”) + -otto (diminutive suffix), a surname derived from Biagio.

affix

Laura Biagiotti, Italian designer


Fiorucci

Elio Fiorucci, Italian designer


Gabbana

Stefano Gabbana, Italian designer


Gucci

English: gucci, Gucci

A variant of the Old Italian name Uguccione, a diminutive meliorative form of Ugo through the suffix -uccio, found primarily in Tuscany.

Guccio Gucci, Italian designer


Missoni

Ottavio Missoni, Italian designer


Moschino

Franco Moschino, Italian designer


Prada

Miuccia Prada, Italian designer


Pucci

Emilio Pucci, Italian designer


Tacchini

Sergio Tacchini, Italian designer


Trussardi

Nicola Trussardi, Italian designer


Boaga

Giovanni Boaga, Italian mathematician


Desio

Ardito Desio, Italian explorer


Oronte

From Latin Orontes, from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης (Oróntēs).


Savoja

(obsolete) Alternative spelling of Savoia


Cappellaio Matto

il Cappellaio Matto (canonical masculine)


Gatto con gli Stivali

il Gatto con gli Stivali (canonical masculine)


Peppino

a diminutive of the male given name Giuseppe


Tonino

a diminutive of the male given name Antonio


Renza

a female given name, female equivalent of Renzo


Impastato

→ English: Impastato

Borrowed from Sicilian mpastatu (“kneaded”), probably used as a nickname.


Chinnici

Rocco Chinnici, Italian Antimafia magistrate


Puglisi

Pino Puglisi, Italian priest who challenged the Mafia


Stura

name of various rivers that flow in Piedmont


Ostuni

A town in Brindisi province, Apulia, Italy


Crispi

Francesco Crispi, Italian politician


Salandra

Antonio Salandra, Italian politician


Rosselli

Carlo Rosselli, Italian politician


Parri

Ferruccio Parri, Italian politician


La Malfa

Ugo La Malfa, Italian politician


Salvemini

Gaetano Salvemini, Italian politician


Abatantuono

Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor


Bongiorno

Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host


Veltroni

Walter Veltroni, Italian politician


La Pira

Giorgio La Pira, Italian politician


Vianello

Raimondo Vianello, Italian actor and television host


Mondaini

Sandra Mondaini, Italian actress and television host


Fracci

Carla Fracci, Italian ballet dancer


Argirocastro

From Byzantine Greek Αργυρόκαστρο (Argurókastro).

der

Αργυρόκαστρο


Valona

Vlorë (the third largest city in Albania)


Procida

From Latin Prochyta, from Ancient Greek Προχύτη (Prokhútē).


Nisida

a very small island in the gulf of Naples


Loreto

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


Terdoppio

a river that flows in Piedmont and Lombardy


Mera

a river that flows in Switzerland and Lombardy


Boiana

the river Bojana that flows between Albania and Montenegro


Tornatore

Occupational surname for a turner, from tornio (“lathe”).

Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian film director


Gullotta

Leo Gullotta, Italian actor


De Nittis

Giuseppe De Nittis, Italian painter


Fattori

Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter


Corcos

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian painter


Tommaseo

Niccolò Tommaseo, Italian linguist and writer


Ammaniti

Niccolò Ammaniti, Italian writer


Bajamonti

Antonio Bajamonti, Italian politician


Luxardo

Franco Luxardo, Italian entrepreneur


Fiume Azzurro

From fiume (“river”) + azzurro (“azure”).


Tammaro

From Latin Tamarus, possibly from Proto-Celtic *tamaros (“river, waters”, literally “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hrós, from *temH- (“dark”). See more at Thames.

a river that flows in Campania and Molise


Tammaro

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þankaz (“thought, mind”) + *mēraz (“great, excellent”).


Zeglia

From Slovene Zilja (the Slovene name for the river).

the old Italian name of the river Gail, that flows in Austria


Palmanova

A town in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy


Eboli

A town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy


Alphecca

Alphecca, the brightest star in the constellation of Corona Borealis


Soligo

A village in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy


Soligo

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


Piombino

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


Narni

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


Cidno

From Latin Cydnus, from Ancient Greek Κύδνος (Kúdnos).


Granico

From Latin Granicus, from Ancient Greek Γρανικός (Granikós).


Scarpanto

From Ancient Greek Κάρπαθος (Kárpathos).


Panatta

Adriano Panatta, Italian tennist player


Pietrangeli

Nicola Pietrangeli, Italian tennist player


Pennetta

Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennist player


Schiavone

Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player


Errani

Sara Errani, Italian tennis player


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.

cog

Καστελλόριζο

Kastellorizo, Castellorizo (an island in Greece)

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


Infantino

From Infante (“a surname”) + -ino (diminutive suffix).


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


Strona

name of various rivers, which flow in Piedmont


Noto

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


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.


Lentini

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


Dakota del Sud

South Dakota (a state of the United States)


Dakota del Nord

North Dakota (a state of the United States)


Cassini

English: Cassini

French: Cassini

Patronymic/plural form of a diminutive of Cassio. Compare Cassina, Cassino, Cassine.


Città del Capo

Cape Town (a city, the legislative capital of South Africa)


PCUS

w:it:Partito Comunista dell'Unione Sovietica

(history, politics) CPSU (Initialism of Partito Comunista dell'Unione Sovietica.)


Demetrio

Borrowed from Latin Demetrius, from Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios).

a male given name, equivalent to English Demetrius


Duilio

a male given name, equivalent to English Duilius


Erico

a male given name, equivalent to English Eric


Banca Centrale Europea

European Central Bank
European Central Bank


Fondo monetario internazionale

International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund


Locri

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

A town in Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy


Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

North Rhine-Westphalia (a state of Germany)


Lutezia

Lutetia (an ancient town in Gaul, Roman Empire, in modern France; modern Paris)


Sbarbaro

Camillo Sbarbaro, Italian writer and poet


Olao

a male given name, equivalent to English Olaf


Neroni

English: Neroni


Lovanio

Louvain (the capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium)


Chio

English: Chio

Chios (an island in Greece, in the eastern Aegean Sea)


Costa

English: Costa


Valsalva

English: Valsalva


Ulderico

a male given name, feminine equivalent Ulderica, equivalent to English Ulric


Cesarea

Caesarea (any of numerous ancient cities in the Roman Empire)


Cassa del Mezzogiorno

a fund, set up in 1950, to stimulate the economy of southern Italy


Corno d'Africa

Horn of Africa (a peninsula in East Africa)


Eligia

a female given name, masculine equivalent Eligio


Firmino

a male given name, feminine equivalent Firmina


Repubblica Federale Tedesca

Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Republic of Germany


Eutimio

Borrowed from Latin Euthymius, from Ancient Greek Εὐθύμιος (Euthúmios).


Serbia e Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro


Zacinto

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζάκυνθος (Zákunthos).

bor+

(obsolete) Zakynthos (an island in Greece)


Poseidone

From Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn); Latin Posīdōn.


Sirena

Inherited from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


Efesto

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἥφαιστος (Hḗphaistos).


Solferino

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


D-o

Se il "servizio del cuore" è la preghiera, non è un caso che D-o dica all'uomo: Dammi il tuo cuore.

1999, Daniela Abravanel, Bruno Baroni, Il segreto dell'alfabeto ebraico, page 197:

E' poca cosa per voi lo stancar gli uomini, che volete stancare anche il mio D-o?

2000, Giuseppe Laras, Le dispute giudaico-cristiane nel Medioevo, page 62:

“Fammi ritornare e io ritornerò, perché tu sei il Signore, mio D-o” (Ger 31,18)

2013, Riccardo Abati, Ritorno ad Auschwitz, page 74:

(Judaism) G-d, Censored spelling of Dio.


Ascalona

From Latin Ascalōn, from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (ashkelón).


Pippi Calzelunghe

From calze lunghe (“long stockings”), calque of Swedish Pippi Långstrump.

Pippi Longstocking (fictional character invented by Astrid Lindgren)


Campanellino

From campanellino (“bell, small bell”), as an almost literal translation of English Tinkerbell.


Madre di Dio

(Christianity) Mother of God (the mother of Christ)


Stato Libero Associato di Porto Rico

it-proper noun

lo Stato Libero Associato di Porto Rico m

lo Stato Libero Associato di Porto Rico (canonical masculine)

Calque of Spanish Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Literally, “Free Associated State of Puerto Rico”.

lit

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico#English

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (the official name of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States)


Ipazia

From Latin Hypatia, from Ancient Greek Ὑπατία (Hupatía).


Quirina

a female given name, masculine equivalent Quirino


Gian

From a contraction of Giovan, shortened form of the given name Giovanni (cognate with English John).

part of compound given names such as Gianmarco or Gianluca; John


torre di Pisa

Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leaning Tower of Pisa


Magdeburgo

Magdeburg (the capital city of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)


Il Cairo

Partial calque of Arabic اَلْقَاهِرَة (al-qāhira).

cal

اَلْقَاهِرَة

Cairo (the capital and largest city of Egypt)


Frisinga

Freising (a town, the capital of Freising district, Bavaria, Germany)


Gottinga

Göttingen (an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany)


Leopoli

Lviv (a city, the administrative center of Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine)


Momo

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos).


Raperonzolo

From raperonzolo (“rampion”), as a translation of German Rapunzel.


Ricciardo

English: Ricciardo


Ethalia

Borrowed from Latin Aethalia, from Ancient Greek Αἰθᾰ́λειᾰ (Aithắleiă).

(obsolete) Synonym of Chio (“an island in the eastern Aegaean Sea”)


Scio

(dated) Synonym of Chio (“an island in the eastern Aegaean Sea”)


Portoferraio

→ Armenian: Պորտոֆերաիո (Portoferaio)

desc

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)

desc

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)


Geppetto

a diminutive of the male given name Giuseppe


bel paese

Ahi Pisa, vituperio de le genti
 del bel paese là dove ’l sì suona[…].

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 79–80; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

Ah! Pisa, thou opprobium of the people
 of the fair land there where the sì doth sound.

[…] il bel paese
 ch’Appennin parte, e ’l mar circonda e l’Alpe

1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CXLVI — O d’ardente vertute ornata et calda”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 13–14; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:

[…] that fair country
 the Apennines divide, and Alps and sea surround.

(chiefly literary, sometimes capitalized) Italy


Gigi

a diminutive of the male given name Luigi


Comboni

Daniele Comboni, Italian missionary


Olinto

From Latin Olynthus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυνθος (Ólunthos).

Olynthus (an ancient city in Chalcidice, modern Chalkidiki, Greece)


Lodovico

a male given name from Latin, variant of Ludovico


Aliarto

From Latin Haliartus, from Ancient Greek Ἁλίαρτος (Halíartos).


Grande muraglia cinese

From grande (“big”, “great”) + muraglia (“wall”) + cinese (“chinese”).


Carnera

Primo Carnera, Italian boxer


Vale

a diminutive of the male given name Valentino


Vale

a diminutive of the female given name Valentina


Amorgo

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀμοργός (Amorgós).


Tino

Clipping of any of a variety of given names ending in -tino, including Agostino, Costantino, Giustino, Martino, Santino, Valentino and others.

a diminutive of the male given names Agostino, Costantino, Giustino, Martino, Santino, or Valentino


Stampalia

Borrowed from Venetan, from Ancient Greek Ἀστυπάλαια (Astupálaia).


Boscoducale

(obsolete) Alternative form of 's-Hertogenbosch


Inguscezia

Borrowed from Russian Ингуше́тия (Ingušétija), from Georgian ინგუშეთი (ingušeti).


Zancle

(historical) the original name of the town of Messina in Italy.


Arafat

Transliteration of Arabic عَرَفَات (ʕarafāt).

translit

عَرَفَات عرفات#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic surname عَرَفَات (ʕarafāt)


Paese del Sol Levante

il Paese del Sol Levante (canonical masculine)

Land of the Rising Sun
Land of the Rising Sun

(periphrasis) the Land of the Rising Sun (Japan)


Maracanazo

Borrowed from Spanish, from Portuguese Maracanã (“the stadium that hosted the match”) plus the suffix -azo.

der

L’attenzione è tutta sulla Seleçao, all’inseguimento del sesto Mondiale e obbligata a scacciare l’incubo del Maracanazo del 1950, e sul fuoriclasse del Barcellona, sbarcato in Brasile con l’arduo compito di superare il mito di Maradona.

2015, Fabrizio Tanzilli, Lo spazio della libertà: Da Michels a Guardiola, il viaggio dell’idea che ha rivoluzionato il calcio, LIT EDIZIONI, →ISBN:

(soccer) Maracanaço (final match in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, won by Uruguay over Brazil)


Ocrida

Ohrid (a city in southwestern North Macedonia)


Curzola

From Latin Corcyra, from Ancient Greek Κόρκυρα (Kórkura).


Etere

From Ancient Greek Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr, “Upper Air”).


Tanato

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).


Euristeo

From the Ancient Greek Εὐρυσθεύς (Eurustheús).


Deino

(Greek mythology) Deino, one of the Graeae


Enio

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐνυώ (Enuṓ).

(Greek mythology) Enyo, one of the Graeae


Penfredo

From Ancient Greek Πεμφρεδώ (Pemphredṓ).

(Greek mythology) Pemphredo, one of the Graeae


Nefele

(Greek mythology) Nephele, goddess of clouds


Palamede

From Ancient Greek Παλαμήδης (Palamḗdēs).


Neottolemo

From Ancient Greek Νεοπτόλεμος (Neoptólemos).


Idomeneo

From Latin Idomeneus, from Ancient Greek Ἰδομενεύς (Idomeneús).

A male given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Idomeneus