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VOMERA | VOMERE | VOMERI | VOMERO | VOMMERA | VOMMERO

Vomera is specific to Melicucco in the Reggio Calabria, Vomere is unique, Vomeri is almost, Vomero has a small stump to guard Perticara and Potenza in the Potentino, and in Calabria to Melicucco in the Reggio Calabria and Roggiano Gravina in Cosentino, Vommaro is specific to the Cosentino, San Lucido , Paola, Cerisano, Fiumefreddo Bruzio and Albanian Falconara, Vommero, absolutely rare, is specific to the Cosentino, these surnames should derive from nicknames based on dialectal alterations of the Latin word vomer, vomeris or equivalent Italian vomere, with which one indicates the blade of the plough, probably indicating that the ancestor of the craft were the peasants.

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


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