Cacioppo

Borrowed from Italian Cacioppo.

Cacioppo (plural Cacioppos)

1. A surname from Italian.
   • 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 March 2015:

     Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cacioppo is the 21218^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1237 individuals. Cacioppo is most common among White (95.07%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Cacioppo”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 266.

• apocopic

Borrowed from Sicilian cacioppu (“dried tree trunk”), perhaps a nickname for someone with wrinkled skin.

Cacioppo m or f by sense

1. a surname from Sicilian [in turn transferred from the nickname]

• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

• accoppio, accoppiò