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GENTILE | GENTILI | GENTILIN | GENTILINI | GENTILINO | IENTILE | IENTILI | JENTILE | ZENTILE | ZENTILI

Gentile is extremely widespread throughout Italy, except that in Sardinia, Gentili is widespread throughout the central north, with a very strong nucleus in Lazio, Gentilin, decidedly Venetian, typical of the area that includes the Veronese and Vicenza areas, Gentilini is very widespread throughout the centronord, especially in the area that includes the Bolognese, Ravenna, Forlì, Rimini and Florence, with a large stock also in Rome, Gentilino, almost unique, could be due to errors in transcription of the previous one, Ientile has a stock in Genoa, one between Rome and Anzio, one in Torre del Greco (NA) and one in the Reggio area of Mammola, Grotteria and Cinquefrondi, Ientili, almost unique, and Jentile, extremely rare, probably due to errors in transcription of previous, Zentile, very very rare, has a lineage between Trentino and Vicenza and one in the Sassari area, Zentili, almost disappeared, seems to be from the Bergamo area, Brescia area, the latter should be a dialectal form of the preceding all derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the medieval name Gentile, directly or through archaic or dialectal forms with I or Z to replace G.

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


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Nobles: Italia
Nobility: Nobili - Conti - Cavalieri
Language of the text: Italiano

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