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PITARI | PITARO | PITERA | PITTERA

Both Pitari and Pitaro, very rare, are typical of the area of Catanzaro, probably of Borgia (CZ), Pitera is almost unique, Pittera, quite rare, is specific to Acireale, Catania and Trecastagni in the Catania area, they should derive, directly or through alterations dialectal, from a nickname originated from the Greek term ??????, pityra (bran), perhaps because the forefather was the producer or seller. The famous character of these families was Antonio Pitaro, a distinguished scholar and scholar, a professor of medicine at the University of Salerno and of Naples, as well as a doctor of the Buonaparte at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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


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