Ventrice and Ventrici seem to be specific to southern Calabria. Integrations and hypotheses provided by Giuseppe Ventrìce Ventre is the Latin term, which derives from the Indo-European root wet, in its variant with went nasal infix, which means abdominal cavity, belly, uterus. This last word is in fact derived from the same Indo-European root to the reduced degree UT. It is easy to observe in fact a certain similarity of the two words womb and uterus that In Latin are pronounced as uènter and ùter. The resulting surname is of the type with suffix-ice,-Ace,-ECE (talkative, pugnacious). The semantic meaning of the surname should be that of a bellied one and should therefore be a nickname. There are variants of the surname in the south of Italy (Ventrelli, Ventrella, Ventricelli); This would suggest that even the family that brings it is native to the Kingdom of Naples. The heraldic archives have brought this surname to a family of Otranto, brancheed in Bari, Barletta, Lecce and in different localities of Calabria. In particular, in 1505 a Michele was the camerlengo of the great executorship of Bari. A Giampanella was the master of the Templars, an Antonio was Bishop of Amalfi.
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