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Soracca, now almost disappeared, seems to have remained only in the Piacentino, Soracchi, very very rare, it would seem the Genoese area and the Apennines Parma, Soracco, also very rare, it would seem typically Ligurian, Genoa, Cicagna, Chiavari and San Colombano Certenoli in Genoa, the most probable thing is that they derive from Italianizations of the Arabic name Sorak (Scirocco), but they could also derive from nicknames originated from the Provencal word Saurra (pronounced Sorra), meaning sand, perhaps Indicate a provenance of the ancestor from a sandy area, it is not possible to exclude a derivation from the name of the Greek toponym of Soracus in Laconia, much less probable a connection with the Latin term, used for example by Plautos, soracus (trunk or bonnet for Storing clothes, normally of the scene), we find traces of these cognitive-choreography in Ligurian Coreglia in Genovese at least from 1700 with a Johannes Batta Soracchus.
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