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Nobles: Italia (Sicilia)
Nobility: Baroni
Language of the text: Italiano
Turrisi
Variations Last name: Turrisi Grifeo

Nobles: Italy (Sicily)
Nobility: Nobles - Lords - Barons - Marquises - Princes
Language of the text: English
Turrisi Grifeo

Nobles: Italia (Sicilia)
Nobility: Principi
Language of the text: Italiano

Coat of arms of family

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ref: 885631

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Blazon:
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Azure, on a mountain in base proper, a square tower double towered or between two lions affrontant of the same langued gules, accompanied in chief by three stars argent of six points 1,2.

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ref: 885630

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D'azzurro alla torre quadrata d'oro di due palchi, fondata sopra un ristretto di terreno al naturale, sostenuta da due leoni d'oro, linguati di rosso, affrontati ed accompagnata in capo da tre stelle di sei raggi di argento, male ordinate.

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ref: 35984

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Blazon:
(Italiano)

D'azzurro alla torre quadrata d'oro di due palchi, fondata sopra un ristretto di terreno al naturale, sostenuta da due leoni d'oro, linguati di rosso, affrontati ed accompagnata in capo da tre stelle di sei raggi di argento, male ordinate.

Search Etymological origin of Italian surnames

TORRISI | TURRISI

Absolutely Catania the first, Sicilian and Salentino the second, derive from one of the various places such as Torre Archirafi (CT), Torre Normanna (PA), Torregrotta (ME), Torre Cesarea (LE), Torre S. Susanna (BR), etc.

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

TORRU | TURRISI

Torru has a stump in Sassari and one between Oschiri and Monti in Gallura, should derive from a nickname Dervante from the Sardinian term torru, which means obstinate, terlate, stubborn, probably to emphasize a behavioral characteristic of the ancestor, The characteristic is certainly not uncommon among the Sardinian people.

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

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