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Widespread in the north, with prevalence in the Veneto region for Bettin and in Lombardy for Bettinelli, and in the central north with prevalence in Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Lazio for Betti, Bettini is widespread throughout the centronord, Bettino, very rare, has a stock of Piedimonte Matese in the Caserta area and one in Messina, Betto is typically Venetian, of the Paduan in particular, of San Giorgio delle Pertiche, Campo San Martino, Padua and Castelfranco Veneto in the Treviso area, Betton is extremely rare of the Treviso area, Bettoni is specific to the Lombard area that includes the provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua and Cremona, Bettoschi is a typical surname of Trescore Balneario in the Bergamo area, these surnames could derive from hypocoristic, accretive or patronymic modifications of the medieval name Bettus, of which we have an example in the Diplomatic Code of medieval Lombardy in a deed of sale of the year 1180 drawn up in Varese, where we read: "... Cartam vendicionis ad proprium fecit Braggius filius quo ndam Arnulfi qui dicebatur Bettus de burgo Varisio ... ", or they could also be a dialectal corruption of words containing the Germanic stem bertha (luminous) or the Celtic bert (bearer), as they could also derive from the name Benedict truncated and transformed by the dialect .
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