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Bagnati would seem to be specific to the Varese area, whereas Bagnato has an Apulian strain, a Sicilian in the Messina area, but the main core is Calabrese. additions provided by Stefano Ferrazzi The origin of these surnames is to be found in the medieval name Bagnato, to be understood probably in the sense of baptized, purified with holy water (see also Baptized and Battiato). From the etymological point of view, in fact, we find an exact correspondence between the verbs wet and baptize, since the latter derives its origin from the Greek baptizein, which literally means to bathe, immerse in water: following this reasoning, then, is It is possible to suppose that in the past the verb "to bathe" was used as a variant of the verb to baptize (which, in fact, consists of a more learned form of medieval Latin, since it is a voice of foreign origin) and hence the equivalence between medieval names Wet and Baptized. From a historical point of view, however, traces of this name can be found in Siena during the 13th century, with a certain Bagnato del Borgo d'Arbia, Baroccio's father and Imilia's husband. As far as the surnames in question are concerned, therefore, these are the surnames of the personal names of the founders, even if in some cases a derivation from nicknames attributed to them is not excluded.
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