Just one word.....?

[gina2u]

I was hoping someone could tell me what 'colabardi' means. It comes up as a nickname for someone in the family history (circa 1900's).
[b]Thanks for your time, Gina V.

[nuccia]

Gina,

Funny but I've never heard of this word! I'm sure someone will be able to help...

Nuccia

[elba]

I was hoping someone could tell me what 'colabardi' means. It comes up as a nickname for someone in the family history (circa 1900's).
[b]Thanks for your time, Gina V.

Like Nuccia - this was a new word to me too. Despite searching all my reference options and even 'Googling' it - 'zilch'.....
But 'maybe' - by separatting the two parts there just 'maybe' a solution of kinds....

colare (one defenition) = To cast metals.
barda (plural 'bardi') = Horse armour

ergo (possibly): colabardi = a man who casts the metal pieces for a horse's armour or harness.....

Well, if nothing else, it does sound a little romantic!

elba

[suanj]

I was hoping someone could tell me what 'colabardi' means. It comes up as a nickname for someone in the family history (circa 1900's).
[b]Thanks for your time, Gina V.

Hi Gina, Colabardi is, most probaly, and second my experience, a dialectal version of COLOPARDI( also exist Collepardi version) surname. Well, in Italy for a same family's surname are always many branches, the various branches are dialectally identified with the last name of the mother; just a exemple and only for exemple:

Gino Rossi have so much sons;
the sons are married;
1 Rossi's son married to a Colopardi woman;
between all Gino Rossi's descendants, they call Colopardi the descendants of family branche Rossi/Colopardi, and in dialect Colopardi become Colabardi for soundex... regards, suanj

PS: however the BARDi ( or Bardo 1 person) in the past time ( middle age and before) was a poets and a singers;

[gina2u]

So far, none of the responses make sense to my family. He came from Sicily in 1905 from San Vito lo Capo. We know he was a fisherman in S.V. and he (Gaspare Vultaggio) married Francesca Cusenza from M.S. Guiliano. Thanks for the possibilities, any others would be welcome...
Gina.

[suanj]

Gina, for to better reply you is necessary that the word is in right italian spelling, and after that you say about sicilian roots, now I searched in sicilian dialect, and I found:

Calabardu/Calabardi, and no Colabardi as you say..

Cala ( from sicilian dialect verb "calari" in italian "calare"= to make to come down/to decrease = it comes down
bardu/bardi ( dialect word in italian secchio)= bucket/buckets


so for a profession abt who make the buckets or who takes water from sink, and similar ancient professions ... regards, suanj

[mfjp]

So far, none of the responses make sense to my family. He came from Sicily in 1905 from San Vito lo Capo. We know he was a fisherman in S.V. and he (Gaspare Vultaggio) married Francesca Cusenza from M.S. Guiliano. Thanks for the possibilities, any others would be welcome...
Gina.

a fisherman.. ok.....

I just looked through my dictionary (Cassell's).. and the meaning of colla

Colla n.f. Glue, paste. - di pesce, isinglass....

that's exactly how it is written in the dictionary....

so... now to look up isinglass...

isinglass is a substance obtained from the swimbladders of fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass

??

it was worth a shot...

Maria