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MESORACA | MESURACA | MISURACA

Mesoraca is specific to Crotone, Cutro in particular and Crotone, Rocca di Neto and Isola di Capo Rizzuto, Mesuraca is quite rare and is typically Calabrese, from Crotone and Catanzaro, Misuraca is widespread in Calabria, in Rossano and Aprigliano in Cosenza, and in Mesoraca in the Crotone area, and in Sicily, in Palermo, Partinico, Giardinello and Cefalù in the Palermo area, in Mazara del Vallo and Alcamo in the Trapani area, in Mussomeli in Nisseno and in Canicattì and Sciacca in the Agrigento region, they should derive, also through dialectal alterations , from the name of the town of Mesoraca in the Crotone area, or even from other Sicilian localities characterized by the presence of a stream that crosses them, from the Greek ??? reo (scroll) with the suffix ????? mesos (in the middle), that is, flowing in the middle.

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


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