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Manni is widespread throughout the central north, with a main stock also in Salento, Manno has stocks in the Salento, in the Neapolitan, in Calabria and in Sicily, they could derive from a dialectal modification of the Latin word magnus, but it is also possible that they derive from the apheresis of names of Lombard origin such as Harimanno or its derivative Ermanno or ethnic as Alemanno. Traces of this surname can be found, for example, in the Diplomatic Code of Medieval Lombardy under the year 1088 in Sovere: "... Alberico Manno, Andreas, Dominico itemque Manno, Alberico neighbors and local consorts Ceredo nominative de duabus pecias de terra campiva et prativa ... ", or also in San Miniato (PI) in the 1400s where the criminal Notary exercises: Alamanno Manni da Buiano. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Manni is the medieval personal Mannus, motivated by the Lombard name Manno «man», which is also the basis of the local name Manno in prov. of Reggio Emilia. A possible derivation from an apheretic form of the name (Her) mannus, ital. Ermanno. Derived forms are Mannelli and Mannini. The proper name Manno appears in a Modenese paper of 984, Mannus of 1027. Source: F. Violi, Surnames in Modena and in the Modena area, 1996.
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