Lovino's name and its possible origins.

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This is a little information about the origin of Lovino's name I found on hetaliaita (this post)

I translated it literally some months ago (in author's view), since I thought it would be better (I mean, in this way it's easier understand, right?)
Anyway I hope it'll be useful and at least it may clear up this stressful "dilemma" (please tell me if I did some mistakes, thank you.)

"At first I had been based solely on Italian sites and the only reference I found was about Lovinus, a variant of the latin word for “little wolf", used in the past as city’s name in its neutral variant “Lovinum" or as nickname in its male variant “Lovinus". […]

(She says that someone pointed out that in English there are some people named Lovino/a, which are English variants of the Italian names Lavinio/Lavinia, which are Etruscan.)

For those who don’t know, Lavinia was Aeneas’s wife, so, if you believe in the myth, ancestor of Romulus, Caesar and Augustus. Hence, I believe, English sites give to this name the meaning of “Mother of the Romans". Ours, technically more correct, just said that “Comes from Lavinium/Lavinia" because most likely it was the meaning that Latins gave to it. Unfortunately the Etruscan meaning is lost, but I doubt that it meant “Mother of the Romans".

Currently Lavinio and Lavinia exist as names, but are not much used. The variants Lovino/Lovina, at the moment, aren’t used in Italy either (it’s possible they never existed and are just foreign versions of the name, for instance Marco who becomes Mark…) At the most, we have Lavino and Lavina, which I’ve never heard, who still seem to exist (among other things, it seems that in English Lovino/Lovina are pronunced, more or less, like Lavino/Lavina).

The likely explanation is that Himaruya, surely, checked out a not-italian dictionary of names which refers to Lovino as a name, seeing the Etruscan origin and meaning of it, has mistaken it for an italian one and used it for Romano."