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PORRACCHIO | PORRAZZO | PURRACCHIO | PURRAZZO

Porracchio, extremely rare, is Sicilian, of Trapani and Palermo, as well as the equally rare Purracchio, Porrazzo has a strain of Campania, in Naples and San Giorgio del Sannio in the Beneventano, and a Sicilian, in Baucina and Palermo and to Mistretta in Messina, always Sicilian Purrazzo, has a strain in the Messina in Capizzi and Taormina, should derive from dialect nicknames based on the term purracchio or purrazzo, meaning leek or asphodel.

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


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