Giarelli

Giarelli's house in Nadro

Giarelli is an Italian surname of the Valle Camonica, Lombardy.

A long presence of the Giarelli family is attested in Nadro of Ceto since the 16th century, although the last name is original of the town of Cimbergo. Another bow of the family is present to Massa Carrara, perhaps in relation with ancient migrations of stone cutters, while other branches of the family are present in Honduras, Argentina, and the United States. In France the surname has assumed the mutation in Gerelli.

The meaning of the name has various interpretations:

• it could derive from the activity of making potters (giare, in Italian);
• according to Franco Bontempi it would derive from the root *werra, war, from which they could be assumed that the members of this family were members of the guard of the castle of Cimbergo;^[1]
• others interpretation suggest that the last name it would derive from the dialectal term being to indicate the gravel (géra, in Aamunian dialect). This solution is perhaps most probable, date the numerous presence of calchere to the feet of the Pizzo Badile Camuno.

In the flat field of the country of Nadro there is the Giarelli locality, that it takes the name of the ancient house of the family, constructed in the 1905, first stable built in the area.

This toponymy appears in the dictionary of "toponomastica bresciana " of Gnaga (1937) that tells about a place called Giarei (“the Giarelli” in Camunian dialect) to north of Losine, that is Nadro.^[2]

Notes

1. Franco Bontempi, Storia di Cimbergo, Darfo Boario Terme, 2004, pg. 270
2. Si riporta:GIARO: casa a NE di Losine, presso la d. dell'Oglio. Sospetto che il toponimo sia Giara, sinonimo di géra, anche perché non molto distante trovasi un luogo detto i Giarei Arnaldo Gnaga. Vocabolario topografico-toponomastico della provincia di Brescia. Brescia, 1937. 290

Coordinates: 46°0′54″N 10°20′51″E / 46.01500°N 10.34750°E