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Capone family:
Surname Capone, as Caponnetto, are also Sicilian (Catania, Milazzo, Pace del Mela) and as such come from the word siciliano.capuni = capon, castrated rooster. See. G. Rohlfs, Historical Dictionary of surnames in eastern Sicily, of Philology and Language Studies Center, Palermo, 1984, p. 62.
Italian Surnames - Cognomi Italiani - C [Ganino]
According to another linguistic-etymological analysis, capone, would not only have the meaning of "capon" - big cock, but also to the one who gives the orders, of a "big head", a "capone", someone important, from comply.
Etimologia : capone;
Term, this, that recalls Akkadian qabûm "Commander" then the notorious Italian-American criminal Al Capone, took a last name, most likely with an etymological Semitic origin, if you think that "Al" is the Arabic definite article corresponding to our "on".
Placed next to one another, and do not differ from so much:
Al Capone - Al Qabûm
It could be the surname to a dialect (southern Italy), of Semitic origin.
Surname Capone, as Caponnetto, are also Sicilian (Catania, Milazzo, Pace del Mela) and as such come from the word siciliano.capuni = capon, castrated rooster. See. G. Rohlfs, Historical Dictionary of surnames in eastern Sicily, of Philology and Language Studies Center, Palermo, 1984, p. 62.
Italian Surnames - Cognomi Italiani - C [Ganino]
According to another linguistic-etymological analysis, capone, would not only have the meaning of "capon" - big cock, but also to the one who gives the orders, of a "big head", a "capone", someone important, from comply.
Etimologia : capone;
Term, this, that recalls Akkadian qabûm "Commander" then the notorious Italian-American criminal Al Capone, took a last name, most likely with an etymological Semitic origin, if you think that "Al" is the Arabic definite article corresponding to our "on".
Placed next to one another, and do not differ from so much:
Al Capone - Al Qabûm
It could be the surname to a dialect (southern Italy), of Semitic origin.
