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Widespread throughout the north, it should derive from a nickname linked to the word piva (wind instrument), probably as a piva player, but we must also consider the possibility that the nickname is linked to aspects of the parent's behavior, making piva is a dialectal way to hold a pout, to be a piva, recalling the plaintive sound of the instrument, means for example to complain often.
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