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SCARAVALLE | SCARAVILLA | SCARAVILLI

All decidedly Sicilian, Scaravalle would seem to be unique, Scaravilla has some presence in the Catania and Ennese, Scaravilli, the only one with significant presences, has a stump in the Messinese, in Cesarò, San Marco D'alunzio and Torrenova, in Catania and Misterbianco, and in the Ennese ad Agira, Scaravillo it would seem of the Messinese, all these surnames should derive from nicknames attributed to the ancestor, whose root should have been an altered form of the dialect term Sicilian scaravàgliu or Scaravìgliu (Cockroach).

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


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