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PAFFUMI | PAFUMI

Pafumi is typical of Messina and of the Messina and Catania, Bronte, Linguaglossa and Giarre in the Catania area, Paffumi, very rare, should originate from the province of Messina, according to some it would be a dialectal modification of the Greek name Pachymios.

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


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