Copertino

Italian

Etymology

From earlier Cupertino, corrupted from Conventino, from conventino (“little gathering, little convent”), from Latin conventus (“assembly”). Civic legend states that the town’s emblem, a pine tree with the letters C and P, —stands for conventio populorum (“gathering of the people”).

Proper noun

Copertino f

  1. a town in Apulia, Italy

Descendants

  • English: Cupertino

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