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Criscione
Variations Last name: Criscione Occhipinti

Nobles: Italia (Sicilia)
Nobility: Baroni
Language of the text: Italiano

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Criscione
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Partito, al primo troncato: a) d'oro, al leone di rosso, tenente con le zampe anteriori un ramo di crescione al naturale in palo, b) fasciato d'azzurro e d'oro, i pezzi d'azzurro cadauno a tre stelle d'argento, di 5 raggi, ordinate in fascia; al secondo d'argento a tre scaglioni, il secondo sormontato da una crocetta, il tutto di rosso.

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CRISCIONE

Sicilian surname, with a nucleus in the province of Ragusa and Catania, perhaps with a stock also in the province of Caserta, it could derive from a nickname originated from a dialectal modification of the word crescione (type of plant), but it is also possible a derivation from the cognomen Latin Criscius. (see Crisci)

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

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