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VASAPOLLI | VASAPOLLO

Vasapolli is Sicilian, of Caltanissetta and San Cataldo in Nisseno, of Pietraperzia in Ennese and Palermo, Vasapollo is typically Calabrian, of Cutro and Crotone in Crotonese and Catanzaro, should be of Greek origin or grecanica and derive from the Greek name?????????? Vasopoulos, the beta letter is read as a V-, composed of the root vase, apocopaic form of Vassiliki (Basil), and from the suffix Poulos (son), it should therefore be a patronymic referred to an ancestor whose father had called Basil.

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


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