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Widespread throughout Italy, it seems to have a strong nucleus in Liguria and southern Sardinia, in Campania and in Piedmont, but there may be strains also in Emilia. It could derive from various toponyms containing the word Massa, such as Massa (BN) - (MS) - (PT), Massa della Lucania (SA), Massa di Somma (NA) etc. additions by Alessandro Benfatto The surname Massa is also present in Salento: the Massa are in fact barons of Galugnano (LE). additions provided by Giuseppe Concas MASSA: it is a surname present throughout Italy. In Sardinia the voice mass assumes meaning sometimes similar to the Italian voice, sometimes it differs. Both in Campidanese and in Logudorese mass means mass, heap, quantity of homogeneous matter. In Latin massa has the meaning of pasta, from the Greek ????, = pasta, derived from the verb ????? = dough. In late Latin massa also assumes the meaning of multitude. In Italian then it takes different meanings, in addition to multitude: mass, in geology; mass in electrical circuits; mass also understood as pasta, from which derives massia; in physics, mass of a body; mass in architecture; mass in economic language;
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