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Melillo

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Nobles: Italia (Regno Di Napoli)
Nobility: Nobili - Cavalieri
Language of the text: Italiano
Melillo

Nobles: España (Navarra)
Nobility: Señores - Caballeros - Familia Noble
Language of the text: Español

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Melillo
ref: 14690

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D'azzurro al crescente d'oro accompagnato da due stelle del medesimo, poste una in capo ed una in punta.

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MELILLO | MILILLO

Melillo is absolutely Campanian, Milillo is specific to Bari, they could derive from a late Latin name Melillus or Mellilus (sweet as honey), traces of the use of this name are found in Andria in the second half of the 1400s: "... Melillus de Sabanica, Andriensis, dated 1490, 24th Sept. Comes from the Neapolitan word 'melillo' = small apple; cfr. also Melilli and Milillo. Source: G. Rohlfs, Diz. historical surname in Eastern Sicily, 1984, p. 127

Bibliographic source "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/

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