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COSTETTI

Costetti is typically Emilian from Reggio, from Castelnovo ne 'Monti, Reggio nell'Emilia, Vetto and Quattro Castella, it could derive from a hypocoristic form of the dialectal term archaic Reggio Emilia cost (ribs), perhaps to indicate in the progenitor a very thin person, much to have ribs in good evidence.

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


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