Well that's actually true, the greatest part of italian surnames end in vowels...the fact is, every italian word ends in vowel! That's a feature of italian language, and it's kind of weird because latin had many words ending in consonants. ...
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No, though many of them do. In the North-East of Italy, particularly in the region of Veneto, most surnames end in a consonant. (e.g. Marangon, Galan etc.) [Jun 06 04 3:07 AM] vale70 writes: The most common Italian surname is Rossi. If you ...
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Collura - suffer from overdose of cholestrol D'alfonso - you are half Brazilian Deniro - gangster Milano - you love AC Milan Pacino - scarface Ciccone - coccaine addict
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It has dual origin, English and Italian. For reference click here.
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Are you sure you understood it right? Because I'm Italian and I've never heard it before...well, according to what you wrote it is TAGNIERI or TACNIERI...
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It's definitely wrong to say that italian surnames often have no meaning. On the contrary, italian surnames quite often do have a meaning, be it the profession of the family's progenitor (Sartori = taylor, Pastorelli = shepherd Fabbri = bla...
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De Luca, Donatello, Da Via, Demma, Demonte and Desideri are some Italian surnames that begin with D.
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