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Petroselli would seem typically Lazio, from Viterbo and Rome, with a strain also in the Marche, Petrosilli, absolutely rare, is almost certainly due to errors of transcription of the previous one, Petrosillo would seem specific of Monopoli (BA). additions provided by Stefano Ferrazzi Petroselli has major stocks between the Roman, Viterbo and Macerata, Petrosilli, very rare, it is also a native of Macerata, Petrosillo is more typically Apulian, with a greater stock in the Bari area and minor stocks in the Taranto area, in Brindisi and Foggia, all these surnames derive from the term petrosello or petrosillo, an archaic or dialectal variant of Italian parsley: the origin of the word is to be found in the Greek petroselinon, which literally means rock celery (since, anciently, this plant was often collected on the cliffs, where it could best take root). In the context of the surnames in question, however, the term petrosello or petrosillo is to be understood in the figurative sense of an intrusive or sometimes intriguing person (just as the expression being like parsley, still in use today, means precisely to be everywhere, intruding into everything and, in a sense, to be intriguing, to create problems with one's intrusion). In conclusion, therefore, these are the surnames of nicknames attributed to the founders.
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