Pareto, Piedmont

Pareto
Pareto
	Comune
	Comune di Pareto
	Location of Pareto
	Pareto Location of Pareto in Italy Pareto Pareto (Piedmont)
	Coordinates: 44°31′N 8°23′E
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province	Alessandria (AL)
Government
• Mayor	Walter Borreani
Area [1]
• Total	41.74 km2 (16.12 sq mi)
Elevation	476 m (1,562 ft)
Population (31 December 2017)[2]
• Total	531
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Paretesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	15010
Dialing code	019

Pareto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southeast of Turin and about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Alessandria.

Pareto borders the following municipalities: Cartosio, Giusvalla, Malvicino, Mioglia, Ponzone, Sassello, and Spigno Monferrato.

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').[3]

Twin towns — sister cities

Pareto di Borbera is twinned with:

Cauto Cristo, Cuba

References

"Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
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.

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[wikidata-16139ca327c50d72c40d8c5fd3abe706b989650e-v3-1] "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

[istat-2] All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

[3] 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.