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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : probably from Trinca, an old Tuscan short form of compound names formed with the verb trincare ‘to drink greedily’.
  • Italian : otherwise from a southern dialect word trinca ‘piece of a boulder or rock’, a derivative of trincare ‘to cut stone’.

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