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It has a stock in the province of Imperia and one in the Como area, it should derive from the Latin cognomen Cotta, brought for example by Aurelio Cotta Consul of the first century BC: "... Aurelius Cotta consult, cum ad opus equites need cogente iussisset access eorumque pars detractasset imperium, questus apud censores effecit, notarentur ut; a patribus deinde obtinuit ... "additions provided by Giancarlo Mainardi the surname Cotta Ramusino originates around 1600 from two original settlements of the Lomellina area in Pavia, both with the surname Cotta and related to each other. Those belonging to one of the branches were of a quarrelsome, intolerant nature, while the members of the second branch were peaceful, mild and calm. To distinguish themselves from the first branch in the rural community, the members of the second branch adopted the symbol of an olive branch, (in the Lomellina dialect ramoscin is said ramusin) symbol of peace, and with this symbol marked the agricultural tools, the barrels, wagons and so on. The symbol then became a surname when the heads of the family had the newborn baptized with the distinction: Cotta Ramusino. Oral tradition from Lomellina, around 1970, and Dictionary Pavese-Italian.
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