Sicignano (surname)
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Sicignano is an Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 habitational surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 from Sicignano degli Alburni
Sicignano degli Alburni
Sicignano degli Alburni is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of southern Italy...

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Etymology

Sicignano is the Modern Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 descendant of the nomen
Roman naming conventions
By the Republican era and throughout the Imperial era, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen...

Sicinius
Sicinius
Sicinius is the nomen of the gens Sicinia, a plebian family of Rome. Ancient documentation place the name in use during The Roman Republic and The Roman Empire.Possible Latin forms include, in the nominative:*Sicinius, masculine singular...

in its masculine adoptive form.

Possible Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 forms include, in the nominative:
  • Sicinius, masculine singular
  • Sicinia, feminine singular
  • Sicinii, masculine plural
  • Siciniae, feminine plural
  • Sicinianus, masculine adoptive
  • Siciniana, feminine adoptive


Sicinia + anus = Sicinianus --> Sicignano
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