Italian origin
Source-reportedLatinized form of Italian Napoleone
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- Wiktionary: NeapolioCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Polish Wiktionary: NeapolioCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
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Italian roots
[ne.aˈpɔː.li.o] · Latin (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
01 / Meaning & origin
Neapolio is a masculine given name documented in Latin. English Wiktionary traces it to Italian Napoleone.
Latinized form of Italian Napoleone
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Neapolio— “of the new city”
From some of these ‘new cities’ was called an Alexandrian martyr, whose canonized fame caused him to be adopted as patron by one of the Roman family of Orsini, in the course of the twelfth century. Neapolion, Neapolio, or Napoleone, continued to be used in that noble house, and spread from them to other parts of Italy, and thence to Corsica, where he received it who was to raise it to become a word of terror to all Europe, and of passionate enthusiasm to France, long after,…
From some of these ‘new cities’ was called an Alexandrian martyr, whose canonized fame caused him to be adopted as patron by one of the Roman family of Orsini, in the course of the twelfth century. Neapolion, Neapolio, or Napoleone, continued to be used in that noble house, and spread from them to other parts of Italy, and thence to Corsica, where he received it who was to raise it to become a word of terror to all Europe, and of passionate enthusiasm to France, long after, in school-boy fashion, at Brienne, its owner had been discontented with its singularity.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section XVIII (Names from Places and Nations) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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