Etymology

Rizzo

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

Italian and Neapolitan Rizzo ← Sicilian Rizzu
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The story

  1. Sicilian · borrowed fromRizzu
  2. Italian and Neapolitan · borrowed fromRizzo
  3. English todayRizzo

Borrowed from Old Italian and Neapolitan Rizzo and/or front Sicilian Rizzu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.