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Cantarella is typical of the Catania area, with strains also in the Salerno area, Cantarelli is specific to the Parma area and the Reggio area, both should derive from nicknames originating from the Latin word cantharus (type of cup with handles, vase), may also refer to place names such as locus Cantharellus quoted in a deed of 1131 in Afragola (NA), traces of these surnames can be found in an act of 1104: "... Petrus filius Albizzi, and Ughiccione filius Uberti, and Leo de Babilonia, and Wido Cantarello, et Tebaldinus , et Gerardus filius Petri, et Alcherius, and Gerardus Pandulfi, et Rodulfinus, et alii plures ... ". additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli The surname last name Cantarella also exists in Veneto where it derives from cantarèla, the name of a fish, the 'sparus cantharus' which in that region also has other names: cantarina, cantarena, cantarena de aspero, ociada. Source: Olivieri 213.
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