© 2001 Andrea Hicks
My
thanks to Joshua Mittleman, Brian Scott, Lowell Turner, and Don Hicks for their help.
Still under construction.
Introduction
These 1600+ attested names were taken from Gerhard Rohlfs' Dizionario dei Cognomi e Soprannomi in Calabria, A. Longo, Ravenna, IT, 1978, Cognomi section and supplements. A majority of the names are from the three provinces of Calabria - Cosenza, Catanzaro and Reggio-Calabria. Names from other southern regions of Italy, Apuglia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily are included. The dates range from 8 C to 1650.
Since southern Italy was dominated by many different cultures during 8 C to 1650, names of Byzantine Greek, Germanic, Arabic, French, Spanish, Hebrew origin will be found and Latin spellings. There are even a couple of Slavic names. Where possible, I have included translations. The Greek transliterations are mine, and are italicized in the data. I have included Rohlfs' headword from the book.
Punctuation for this article
Accents for Greek transliterations
Source note
Area Map
The names on these pages are sorted by century, then alphabetically by name.
Masculine given names, 10-11th, 12th, 13-14th, 15-17th centuries.
Masculine names with by-names, 10-11th, 12th, 13-14th, 15-17th centuries.
By-names from the book that were listed with no given names: 7-11th, 12th, 13-14th, 15-17th centuries which includes Antique/Old.
Other Names:
Occurrence of masculine given names by century.
Letters
with a bar over them
are written <
e: >
Letters with a dot over the letter are written < h. >
Letters with two dots over the letter are written < i” >
Accents
for Greek transliterations used in this article are written after the letter:
The
Acute accent is written as < / >
The
Circumflex is written as < ^ >
The
Grave is written as < \ >
The Tilde is written as < ~ >
The Greek alphabet that was used in this article can be
found at http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
The letters that are spelled differently than the online alphabet in this article are
in boldface type.
Alpha
is written < a >
Beta
is written < b >
Gamma
is written < g >
Delta
is written < d >
Epsilon
is written < e >
Ze^ta
is written < z >
The^ta
is written < th >
Iota
is written < i >
Kappa
is written < k >
Lambda
is written < l >
Mu
is written < m >
Nu
is written < n >
Omikron
is written < o >
Pi
is written < p >
Rho
is written < r >
Sigma
is written < s >
Tau
is written < t >
Upsilon
is written < u >
Phi
is written < f >
Psi
is written < ps >
Smooth breath marks are omitted at the beginning of a word.
Rough breath marks are written as < ` > and are placed before the letter.
*
term, word or form is conjecture, non attested by the author.
** Gender unknown or possibly a feminine given name.
Alb.
Alabanese
Ar.
Arabic
ant.
ancient, antique, old
AP Apuglia
B
Greek zone of Bova
BA Basilicata
Biz.
Byzantine
Bov.
Greek dialect of the zone of Bova (RC)
CA
City of Catanzaro
cal./Cal. in the Calabrese dialect
CAMP Campania
cfr.
compare
CL
zone of Calabro-Lucana
CMR
Calabria entire
CO
city of Cosenza
cog.
cognomen
com.
commune,,municipality, town.
contr.
District (of a town); stretch of country; country region.
cor.
corruption
CS
province of Cosenza
CZ
province of Catanzaro
dial.
dialect
dim.
diminutive
dipl.
charter
doc.
document (actions, diplomas)
err.
error
f.
feminine, lady
fam.
family
Fr.
French
Germ.
German
Gr.
Greek
GREEK transliteration of a Greek word or name
grico
grecanico (Gr. dialect) from zone of Bova
inf.
childish language
inform.
information
l.
lat.
Latin
loc.
locality
Long.
Longbardo
Luc.
Lucano
m.
masculine, man
mass.
(masseria) large farm
Mess.
Messinese (Messina)
Nap.
Neapolitan
nipotino grandson
Norm.
Norman
Ofr
Old French
PSk
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pap.
papyrus
patron.
patronymic
pers.
name of a person
pl.
plural
pl.n.
place-name
pron.
pronunciation
prov.
province
RC
prov. of Reggio Calabria
RE
city of Reggio Calabria
S Sicily
Sic.
Sicilian
soprn.
nickname; sobriquet
top.
toponymn (toponimo)
translit.
transliteration
volg./vul. vulgar
Rohfls' sources include primary and secondary sources, plus other onomastic and etymological studies, and general histories of the area. A list of the sources for the names in this article is available upon request.