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PAPILI | PAPILIO | PAPILLA | PAPILLI | PAPILLO

Papili has a stock in Ancona and Ancona and one in Rome and its province, Papilio is instead specific to Marigliano in Naples, Papilla is unique, Papilli, almost unique, is from the Abruzzo region of Lazio, Papillo has a small stock in beneventano in San Giorgio la Molara and one in the Vibonese, they should all derive from the Gens Papia, from the Latin hypocoristic form Papillo, Papilla, or from the Latin nomen Papilius, of which we have an example in an ancient Roman tombstone: "Q (uinto) Rupilio Q (uinti) filio / Pap (iria tribu) Honorato / in equestres / turmas adlect / to diuo Alexan / fro, flamini p (er) p (etuo), / L (ucius) Papilius Sa / urninus / patron in / comparable ".

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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