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English

Etymology

From Italian donna. Doublet of dame and domina.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?n.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?.n?/

Noun

donna (plural donnas)

1. A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
   • 1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)

     What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones […]

   • 2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni, page 22

     In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.

   Synonyms: lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman

   Coordinate term: don

Translations

Anagrams

• Danno, Nando, nonad, nonda

Finnish

Noun

donna

1. (slang) woman

Declension

Anagrams

• nadon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.na/

Verb

donna

1. third-person singular past historic of donner

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???n???/, /?d???n???/

Adjective

donna

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of donn (“brown”)

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Doublet of dama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n.na/
• Hyphenation: dòn?na

Noun

donna f (plural donne)

1. woman

   Antonyms: ragazza, uomo

2. (archaic) lady

   Synonyms: signora, dama

3. wife

   Synonym: moglie

4. (card games) queen

   Synonym: regina

5. actress

   Synonym: attrice

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: donna
• ? Swedish: donna

See also

• bambina
• femmina
• ragazza
• signora

Anagrams

• danno, dannò

Japanese

Romanization

donna

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

donna f (definite singular donnaa, indefinite plural donnaer, definite plural donnaene)

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References

• “donna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

donna ? (oblique plural donnas, nominative singular donna, nominative plural donnas)

1. (Anglo-Norman) lady

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.

Noun

nonna (plural nonnas)

1. (dialectal) grandmother

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay nyonya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.na?/
• Hyphenation: non?na

Noun

nonna f (plural nonna's, diminutive nonnaatje n)

1. (historical) A (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent.
2. (historical) A young lady, a miss.

Related terms

• nonnie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: nonna

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n.na/

Noun

nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno)

1. grandmother, granny

Derived terms

• bisnonna
• trisnonna

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

Descendants

• ? English: nonna
• ? Greek: ???? (nóna)
• ? Italiot Greek: nunna
• ? Mòcheno: nu'na

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of nonnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n??]

Noun

nonna f (genitive nonnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. nun

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• nonnus

Descendants

References

• nonna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nonna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nonna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• nonna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?n?nn?/

Noun

nonna f (plural nnonne)

1. grandmother
2. beddy-bye

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nonnen

Noun

nonna m or f

1. definite feminine singular of nonne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nonna f

1. definite singular of nonne