Brief Life History of Papa
When Papa was born about 1668, in Sapo`e, Samoa, her father, Letoga, was 33 and her mother, Mrs. Letoga, was 29. She had at least 1 daughter with Uluifuga Tevaseu.
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Some characteristic forenames: Italian Angelo, Salvatore, Mario, Rosario, Domenic, Alfonso, Eduardo, Antonio, Basilio, Carmelo, Emidio, Ettore, Gino, Marco, Pasquale, Pellegrino, Pietro, Ricardo, Rodolfo. Spanish Salvador, Joselito, Nicanor, Rolando.
Italian: nickname from papa ‘father, cleric, pope’. In southern Italy it is generally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a priest or, in some cases, for the illegitimate child of a priest, but in the North it is more often a nickname meaning ‘pope’, denoting a vain or pompous man. In some parts of Calabria the term is also signifies ‘uncle’.
American shortened form (and Greek feminine form, denoting ‘the daughter, or wife of’) of Greek Papas ‘priest’ and of patronymics beginning with Papa-, for example Papageorgiou .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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