Saracco

Saracco can have several meanings:

• Saracco is an Italian surname. Saracco family members have migrated through history thereby carrying the name to many areas. The color Gules (Red) in the coat of arms of the family Saracco symbolizes military, foritude and magnanimity. It also reflects the hopes, ambitions and aspirations of its original bearer.
  • Giuseppe Saracco was a former Prime Minister of Italy (1900-1901).
• Saracco is Italian for rip saw, a hand-saw with a loose blade in a trapezoidal form furnished with a handle attached at one end which is larger than the blade.
• Saracco might be a derivative of the Italian term saracchio, denoting a type of grass used for matting, presumably a topographic name, or possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone who gathered the grass or wove it into mats.
• Saracco can be a nickname from a derivative of Arabic sarrāq ‘thief’.

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