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AGUGLIA | AGUGLIARI | AGUGLIARO | AUGUGLIARO

Aguglia has a Sicilian nucleus in Palermo and Palermo and also in Piazza Armerina in the Enna area, with a stock also in Lecce and Lecce, Agugliari is almost unique and is probably due to errors of transcription by Agugliaro that is Sicilian with a stock of Palermo, one in Scicli in Ragusa and one in Castellammare del Golfo in Trapani, Augugliaro is Sicilian, with a stock in Trapani, in Trapani, Erice, Valderice and Paceco, a stock in Palermo and one in Scicli in Ragusa, they should derive from a seafaring profession, aguglia was once called the needle of the compass, or from the profession of fisherman or builder of nets, agugliara is called a particular type of net used for fishing for garfish.

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


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