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4/19/2025, 1:28 AM jocatchi
4/29/2014, 4:14 PM wileyg

Name Pietrafesa
Type Surname
Usage Italian
Pronounced Pron. /ˌpje.tra.ˈfe.za/
Edit Status Status3. usages AND description are verified

Meaning & History

From the former name of a town in Potenza, Italy (changed to Satriano di Lucania in 1887), an Italianized form of Medieval Latin Petrafixa, composed of petra "rock, stone" and fixa "fixed, fastened, immovable; constant". The Italianized form may have been influenced by fesso "split, cracked, ruptured".
Added 4/29/2014 by wileyg