Terrone

in the 18th century, included in the so-called Campania Felix. Terrone ( ; plural , feminine ) is an epithet of the Italian language with which the inhabitants of Northern and Central Italy depreciatively indicate the inhabitants of Southern Italy. The term certainly originates from the word (Italian for "land"), with developments that are not always clear, and was perhaps linked in the past by the denominations of southern areas such as the Terra di Lavoro (in Campania) or the Terra di Bari and the Terra d'Otranto (in Apulia). The word was recorded for the first time in 1950 by Bruno Migliorini, as an appendix to Alfredo Panzini's Dizionario moderno ("Modern Dictionary") in 1950. Ultimately, it is a derogatory and racist term meaning "people from the dirt".

in the 18th century, included in the so-called Campania Felix.]] Terrone ( ; plural , feminine ) is an epithet of the Italian language with which the inhabitants of Northern and Central Italy depreciatively indicate the inhabitants of Southern Italy. The term certainly originates from the word (Italian for "land"), with developments that are not always clear, and was perhaps linked in the past by the denominations of southern areas such as the Terra di Lavoro (in Campania) or the Terra di Bari and the Terra d'Otranto (in Apulia). The word was recorded for the first time in 1950 by Bruno Migliorini, as an appendix to Alfredo Panzini's Dizionario moderno ("Modern Dictionary") in 1950. Ultimately, it is a derogatory and racist term meaning "people from the dirt". ==Etymology== on an ancient map]] According to the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana ("Great Dictionary of the Italian Language" GDLI), the term terrone derives from (Italian for "land"), with the suffix -one. The Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana ("Etymological Dictionary of the Italian Language, DELI) defines it as a toponymy referring to the Terra di Lavoro, the Ancient Campania (Campania Felix), a vast area of agricultural work in the Kingdom of Naples and subsequently in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, or to the other "lands" (term which designated some provinces) of the Kingdom of Naples, such as the Terra di Bari or the Terra di Otranto. The reference to the land is also variously explained by the GDLI as "land eater", "person with dark skin colour, similar to the land" or "originating from lands subject to earthquakes". The term may have originated as a syncrasis of terre[moto] and [meridi]one ("person from a land [such as Southern Italy] prone to earthquakes"). ==History== in Turin, where many Italians emigrated from Southern Italy to work]] Until the 1950s, terrone kept the classist meaning of "peasant", that is "person working the land (hence the word terra)". At one point, even people migrating from the relatively more rural regions of Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the industrialised Lombardy had been accordingly nicknamed terroni del nord ("Northern Terroni"). From the 20th century onwards, the term terrone began to be used in Northern Italy to refer to those originally from Southern Italy, with particular reference to emigrants looking for work. However, it was not until the Italian economic miracle, when a great number of Southerners migrated to the industrial centers of Northern Italy, that it spread in large urban centers and in the countryside of Northern Italy with often highly derogatory and insulting connotations, and is similar to other words of the Italian language designating farm workers ( , , , and ). The term terrone has now extended to include the Tuscans themselves in the language of the inhabitants of the northern regions of Tuscany. ==See also== Racism in Italy Italy's North-South economic divide Polentone ==Notes== ==References== ==Bibliography==

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