Etymology

Paparella

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Today it means: A surname from Italian. Full definition →

Italian Paparella ← Sicilian Papareḍḍa
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The story

  1. Sicilian · borrowed fromPapareḍḍa“little duck”
  2. Italian · borrowed fromPaparella
  3. English todayPaparella

Borrowed from Italian Paparella and/or from the Italianization of Sicilian Papareḍḍa (“little duck”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.