Example sentences for: felice

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  • Baro or Barro ( baro cheat) was the boring option for christening thieves; more interesting choices included Mangiavacchi vacchi a plural of vacca cow), Mangiagalli ( gallo rooster), or Fumagalli ( fumare to smoke; de Felice says that such thieves would smoke the chickenkeeper out to get his charges).

  • There is a whole class of Italian surnames that were given to foundlings, including variations of Trovato (trovato past participle of trovare to find; trovatello foundling), Proietto (proietto ejected or rejected), Innocenti , and Nocenti (given to all children taken into Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti orphanage; the name was also given to those who were innocent of evil, or simple-minded), Ignoto ( ignoto unknown), and Esposito or Sposito (esposto exposed), which de Felice has found to be the most common name in Naples.

  • Emidio de Felice, the maestro of Italian anthroponymy and author of I Cognomi Italiani (Bologna: Il mulino, 1981) and Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (Milano: A. Mondadori, 1978), has estimated that no fewer than 15 per cent of all Italian surnames have their origin in nicknames.

  • Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.

  • According to de Felice's extensive studies of phone books and other records (much of his research is financed by SEAT , Italy's telephone service), the most common of all surnames in Calabria is Rotundo , which means obese.


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