Pareto is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Alessandria
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in the
Italian
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region
Piedmont
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, located about southeast of
Turin
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and about southwest of
Alessandria
Alessandria (; pms, Lissandria ) is a city and ''comune'' in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. The city is sited on the alluvial plain between the Tanaro and the Bormida rivers, about east of Turin.
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Pareto borders the following municipalities:
Cartosio
Cartosio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.
Cartosio borders the following municipalities: Castelletto d'Erro, Cavat ...
,
Giusvalla
Giusvalla ( lij, Giüsvala, pms, Giusvâla) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa and about northwest of Savona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 439 an ...
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Malvicino
Malvicino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.
Malvicino borders the following municipalities: Cartosio, Montechiaro d' ...
,
Mioglia
Mioglia ( lij, Mieuja; pms, Mioja) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa and about north of Savona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 536 and an area o ...
,
Ponzone
Ponzone is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,217 and an area of .All de ...
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Sassello
Sassello ( lij, Sascello; locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa and about north of Savona in the northern side of the Ligurian Apennines. It is the birthpla ...
, and
Spigno Monferrato
Spigno Monferrato is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southwest of Alessandria.
History
The land of Spigno was owned by the Count of Sales ...
.
The village is located on a steep hill, almost 500 meters above sea level.
The name of the village has been mistakenly interpreted according to a paretimology that connects it with Latin ''piretus'', 'pear (tree) orchard'. This is evidently a paretymology, deriving, instead, the toponym from the Indo-European root ''*br- / *bar-'', with the meaning of 'rock', 'stone', 'hill', 'mountain', 'slope', = Latin ''pǎrǐēs'', 'mountain face', 'rock wall'. The toponym would have originated in Indo-European times (''Par-eto'' ~ ''Par-'' < PIE ''*br- / *bar-'', 'stone', 'hill', 'mountain', 'slope', + ''-eto''
Latin ''-etum'', 'village'= ''*breto / *bar-eto'' → ''*par-eto'' = ''Pareto'', 'village located on a hill').
[Francesco Perono Cacciafoco. 2014]
Beyond Etymology: Historical Reconstruction and Diachronic Toponomastics through the Lens of a New Convergence Theory
''Acta Linguistica: Journal for Theoretical Linguistics'', 8, 3, pp. 92-93.
Twin towns — sister cities
Pareto di Borbera is
twinned with:
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Cauto Cristo
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Demographics
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, Cuba
References
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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