Sarteur
This form is a variant of the surname Sarti.
Origin and meaning
E. De Felice, F. De Laurentiis and P. Canè agree that the surname was formed from the trade name sarto ("tailor").
De Felice specifies that it includes the old and regional variant sartore —central, and sartor, sartùr or sartù, of the north—, which continue the nominative and the oblique respectively of the Latin sārtor sartōris ("tailor"). He notes that Sartoris and Sartorius or Sartorio are Latinizing, notarial forms. He adds that Sertorio arose through a paretymological approximation and the crossing with the republican Latin nomen Sertorius.
De Laurentiis adds that the surname is diffused throughout peninsular Italy, with a greater frequency in Tuscany and in Emilia.
Canè classifies it among the trade surnames.
Variants
Altered forms and derivatives
Geographic distribution: Peninsular Italy (Sarti, greater frequency in Tuscany and Emilia); North (Sartori predominantly; Sartor, Sartorét, Sartorari and Sartorato proper to the Venetias; Sarteur of the Val d'Aosta; Sertorio of the North-West)
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Sources
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:
- De Felice, E. (1978). Dizionario dei cognomi italiani. Milano: Mondadori.
- De Laurentiis, F. (2003). Cognomi occhiobellesi. Storia, curiosità, significati e classifiche. Occhiobello: Teatro Polivalente di Occhiobello (T.P.O.). Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20030516113456/http://www.comune.occhiobello.ro.it/cognomi/
- Canè, P. (2007, September 8). Cognomi bolognesi. In Il Bolognese [blog]. Retrieved from https://ilbolognese.blogspot.com/2007/09/cognomi-bolognesi.html