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Mascia has a large nucleus in the Cagliari area, in the province of Rome, in Campania, Molise and in Puglia, the Sardinian nucleus should derive from the Sardinian term archaic maxia (magic, spell), the southern stocks should derive from modifications of the Latin word magister and would be to indicate the craft of craftsmanship carried out by the progenitor (see MASCI), according to others it derives instead from the word of Spanish origin masia (farm, farm) (see MASIA). additions provided by Giuseppe Concas MASCIA; MASIA; MAXIA: sa maxîa (î nasale) = medicine, is the phonetic variant of the maxìna literary form (mascìna and masìna are spoken variants). The original is maxìna, and given the presence of the "x" with fricative value - palatal - sound, it belongs without any other to the Campidanese. Only in the ancient Campidanese and Arborensian documents does "x" appear with this value. Here we commonly say "mexìna" and it is closer to the Italian medicine. The word, in its three territorial variants maxîa, mascîa and masîa as well as the meaning of medicine also takes that of magic, spell, which here in Campidano we call mostly matzìna, from Catalan matzìna = poisonous concoction. The surname could refer to the "profession" of the progenitor: doctor, pharmacist, but also magician or sorcerer. It is present, in its variants,
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