Etymograph

English

Pignataro

Pignataro comes from Sicilian Pignataru ‘potter’, and goes back to pignata ‘pot, pan’.

  1. Sicilianmodernpignata‘pot, pan’
  2. Sicilian, derivedmodernPignataru‘potter’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentPignataro
  4. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Sicilianmodernpignata‘pot, pan’
  2. Sicilian, derivedmodernPignataru‘potter’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentPignataro
  4. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A surname from Italian.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Sicilian pignata / Pignataro