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con il plurale antiquato ragaceni (1408) o ragazzini (1492), dall’arabo magrebino raqqāṣ (رَقَّاص) ‘corriere, messaggero’, al plurale raqqāsīn,[1] passato già nel latino medievale ragatius e varianti. Secondo altri, invece, sarebbe un prestito dal grecoanticoῥάκος ‘cencio, straccio’, che potrebbe aver indicato per metonimia il servo o lo schiavo, e quindi poi il fanciullo identificato per antonomasia con lo schiavo.