Search Etymological origin of Italian surnames

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PROIETTI | PROIETTO

Proietti is very widespread in the band that includes Umbria, Lazio and Aquilano, Proietto has nuclei in Sicily, in Crotone and in Rome, derive from the name attributed, in the centre and in the south of Italy, to the foundlings, derived in turn from the Latin word proiectus by the verb Proicere (to lay, throw away, abandon) who had given the name to the establishment of the Rota Proiecti, sort of anonymous hidden closet where the newborn was deposed (use that seems to be resumed today to combat the phenomenon of abandonment of infants Unwelcome in a dumpster), of the use of this term we have an example in 1204 in the Regule Hospitalis Sancti Spiritus in Rome: "... Orphani infantes proiecti Pro Posse Domus Nutriantur et pauperes femine pregnantes gratanter suscipiantur. ET eis caritatiue ministretur... ".

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