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SCATTARELLI

Scattarelli is a surname typically Apulian, of Bari in particular, a hypothesis proposes a Germanic origin from an Italian hypochoristic of the term Germanic skata (Shadow, darkness), perhaps indicating that the ancestor came from a shady place or was usually Verstire very dark clothes, according to another hypothesis would come from a nickname based on a Venetian voice Illyrian archaic Scataro (spit, phlegm) and could emphasize a behavioral habit of the ancestor.

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


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