a Latin vowel pair
mattuccia
There is an e before the u: matteuccia.
a Latin vowel pair
The eu is the seam where the two halves of the surname meet, Matte and ucci, and in Italian both vowels are pronounced. English runs them together into a single sound somewhere between oo and yoo, and once they have merged the e has nothing left to announce it. It is still the letter that makes the second t part of a syllable rather than a stray consonant.
The class
A vowel pair carried in from Latin with its spelling intact.
Same name
Other spellings recorded for matteuccia
The name