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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from Sicilian tumminia, tumunia, denoting a type of wheat which ripens in three months, from medieval Greek trimēnia ‘three months’, hence a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for a grower of or dealer in such wheat.

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