Isacco

Machine-translated from the Italian article

Isacco is an Italian masculine given name. It is a name of biblical tradition, borne by the patriarch Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah. It reached us, through the Latin Isaac and the Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from the Hebrew name יִצְחָק (Yitzchaq or Yitzhaq), certainly connected with the Hebrew verb צָחַק (tzachaq, "to laugh"); in the Old Testament, this etymology is explained by the fact that Abraham laughed when God told him his elderly wife would conceive a son, and Sarah also laughed when the prophecy was relayed to her (Gen 17:17 and 18:10–15), and consequently the name is interpreted as "he laughs", "may he laugh", "he will laugh", "he will rejoice", or "laughter".