| Title: | Persistence of iterative personal names in Italian: Medieval to early modern vs. the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Author: | Ephraim Nissan |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 628 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | In Italian (and not as frequently, in some other languages as well) there exists a pattern of iterative names. These, which in Italian are called nomi iterati, are such personal names, that the first name is a singular form of the family name. In the Middle Ages up to the early modern period, and much more rarely later on, in iterative names the first name is formed as the singular of the family name, even though the family name is not itself readily identifiable as being formed out of a first name in the contemporary onomasticon. In contrast, in the 19th and 20th century, one not infrequently comes across such Italian iterative names that the family name is clearly related to a first name, and the given person’s first name is that first name in the singular. I have currently a book in preparation about this topic. Sections in this article include: Iterative names as translated character names in Italy; Medieval Italian iterative names; Italian iterative names from the Quattrocento to the Seicento; Eighteenth-century Italian iterative names; Some nineteenth-century Italian iterative names; The case of Sismondo Sismondi; Considerations concerning iterative names borne by people in twentieth-century Italy; Some twentieth-century Italian iterative names: Some examples from just the first few letters of the alphabet; Female Italian iterative names; Italian iterative names borne by Jews; An Italian iterative name given to a child converted from Judaism; Concluding remarks: The historical trend privileging a less picturesque subpattern of iterative names in the last two centuries, and notable exceptions. |
| Key words: | iterative names, prosopography, Italian, diachronic anthroponomastics, Italian history |
| Language: | English |
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Citations to this publication: 1
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