Pesavento
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Pesavento.
Proper noun edit
Pesavento (plural Pesaventos)
- A surname from Italian.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Pesavento is the 37735th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 589 individuals. Pesavento is most common among White (95.93%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pesavento”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of pesa (“to weigh”) + vento (“wind”), a nickname for an idle or prodigal person.
Proper noun edit
Pesavento m or f by sense
- a surname transferred from the nickname
Further reading edit
- Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2024
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- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
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- Italian verb-object compounds
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian proper nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Italian surnames
- Italian surnames from nicknames