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Position:Home>Genealogy> What does the italian surname of Marazzo mean?Question: What does the italian surname of Marazzo mean?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: your family dropped an "r" somewhere in your family history. Marrazzo probably from a pejorative form of Marra. from the Calabrian dialect word marrazzu ??butcher??s knife??, presumably a metonymic name for a butcher. Marra Southern Italian: habitational name from places so called in central and southern Italy, from marra ??heap of stones??. Italian: from marra ??hoe?? (from Latin marra), presumably a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such implements or a metonymic occupational name for an agricultural laborer. The surname is also found in Spain and Portugal in this sense. |