How to pronounce Laricchiuta?

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Last name

Italian

Larecchiuta

Southern Italian for "The woman with remarkable ears"

An Italian surname clearly originating from a physical feature in an ancestor.

"The woman with remarkable ears" in standard Italian would be "la orecchiuta", from "orecchio" (sometimes spelt "orecchia"), ear. In most southern Italian dialect "orecchia" becomes "recchia" or "ricchia", so:

La orecchiuta -> La ricchiuta -> Laricchiuta