Carotta (engl. "red house",[1] from venet.ca’[2] and OIt.rotto[3]) is an Italian surname. Carotta, its plural form Carotte, and the variant Casarotta are also rare toponyms,[4] especially of hamlets and homesteads in northern Italy, for example Fornace Carotta (Fiesso Umbertiano), Carotta (near Quinzano, Verona), and Casarotta (Loro Ciuffenna), but also of regions like Carotte (Pedemonte).
^Cf. the variants Carossa and Casarossa, from casa rossa; cf. Canova, from Casanova ("new house"); cf. Cabianca ("white house").
^Short form of venet. caxa or it. casa; cf. Manuzzi, Giuseppe (1833). Vocabolario della lingua italiana. Vol. 1. Florence: David Passigli. p. 489., s.v. "Ca".
^Old variant of it. rosso after gemination of OHGrōt; cf. Köbler, Gerhard (1993). Wörterbuch des althochdeutschen Sprachschatzes (4 ed.). Paderborn: Schöningh. p. 90. ISBN3-506-74661-8., s.v. "rōt"; cf. also "red Venus" as Venarotta (Ascoli Piceno).
^Rivista Musicale Italiana. Vol. 14. Turin: Fratelli Bocca. 1907. p. 102., s.v. "Carotta Gioacchino".
Surname list
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