The story
- Lombard · derived fromstradivare“toll-man”
- Latin · borrowed fromStradivarius
- English todayStradivarius
Named after the Stradivari family (Latin Stradivarius), an Italian surname either from the plural of Lombard stradivare (“toll-man”), or from strada averta (“open road”) in the Cremonese dialect.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.