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Add to ListSurname ADORNO
SOURCE: Occupation
USAGE: Italian
PRONOUNCED: A-door-no
EDIT STATUS:
CONTRIBUTOR: Susan Sheldon on 1/24/2008
LAST EDITOR: LMS on 6/11/2016 [revision history]
Meaning & History
Southern Italian: from the personal name Adorno, meaning ‘adorned’.
Italian: from Italian adorno denoting a type of hawk, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with hawklike features or a metonymic occupational name for someone who trained hawks.
Italian: from Italian adorno denoting a type of hawk, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with hawklike features or a metonymic occupational name for someone who trained hawks.