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Menna is widespread in Lazio, in the area that includes the Pescara area, the Theatine in particular and the Campobasso area, Campania, especially in the Neapolitan and Avellino areas and Puglia, Mennella is typically from the Salerno area and above all from Naples, with appearances also in the Foggia, in the Roman and Latin dialects, Mennelli, quite rare, seems specific to San Severo in the Foggia area as well as the still rarer Mennello, a very rare Menni seems Lombard, probably from Bergamo or Brescia, could derive from the apheresis of the name Almenno ( BG), Menno has almost disappeared, all derive, directly or through hypocorisms, from the medieval name Menna or Mennus, of which we have an example in this writing that speaks of Saint Menna: ".. Menna dictus est almost manna a manum quod est bonum , quia virtutum bonitate indutus fuit, vel sic dictus a manna soporat food et albo, quia imbutus fuit candore virtutum et flavor divine gratie conditus ... ", it cannot be excluded that in some cases may derive from toponyms containing the root Menna, as only by way of example Santa Menna nell'aquilano, Masserie di Menna nell'iserniese or Santomenno nel salernitano. Traces of these surnames can be found in Pavia in a deed of sale dated 1171, which reads: "... et iacet in via de Mulino, and east pertice quattuor et tabule tredecim; choeret ei: ab a part via de Mulino, ab alia Opizonis Menni, a tercia Sanctus Petrus ... ", in the second half of the 1600s we find a Caterina Mennella in Lacco Ameno in the Neapolitan dialect. additions provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Mennella is a Pugliese and Lucan surname, it comes as a diminutive from the Salentino mènna, Sicilian minna
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