Last name origins & meanings:
- Italian: metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, from
caccia ‘hunting’.
- Italian: short form of any of numerous compound
surnames derived from nicknames formed with caccia ‘hunting’
(from cacciare ‘to hunt’, ‘to chase’), for example
Cacciabue ‘chase (the) ox’, Cacciafeda ‘hunt (the) wild
animal’.
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