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Rocchi is spread throughout the Centronord, Rocchin is almost unique, Rocchini has a stump in the Florentine and one in the area that includes the Perugino in particular, the Ternano, the Viterbo and the Roman, Rocchino, very very rare, has a campano strain, particularly in the Salerno and one Calabrese in the Catanzaro, Rocchio has a strain between Caserta and Iserniese, with small strains also in Abruzzo, Rocci has a Piedmontese strain in Turin, one in Macerata, one in Abruzzo, in the Teramano and in the Teatino in particular, one in the Roman, in Frusinate and in Latinense and one between Bari and Tarentino, Rocco is Panitaliano, Roccon, very rare, is the area between Belluno and Trevigiano, Rocconi very rare is Lazio, Roccuzzo has a strain in the Ragusano in Monterosso Almo, Ragusa and Giarratana, Caltagirone and Catania in Catania and Syracuse, Ruocco is typically Campano, especially the Neapolitan and Salerno, with a strain also in Foggia and Rome, should all derive, directly or through various different forms of hypochoral or augmentitive, with or without modifications Dialectal, from the medieval name Rochus, Rochius or Rocchus of Germanic origin originated from the Germanic term hrock (crow), an example of this name we have it in Pavia at the end of 1300: "... Iohannes Rochus de Portijs Papiensis. Natus EST Papiae year 1391 former nobles et antiqua Familia de Portijs... " And in the Baldus of Teofilo Folengo: "... Illico between Rocchus Spoiat de Corpore cappas, apparetque Statim fans in Giuppone galantus,... ", in an act of sale of 1199 in Milan are already traces of these cognominizations:"... Vigexima Septima dicitur ad Crucem Petri Iudicis, a mane Ruberti Rochi, a Monte via, pertice tres et tabule sex et pedes novem; Vigexima Octava dicitur ad Crucem... ".
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