Nola

See also: nola and NOLA

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Nola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nolidae – certain moths.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Noctuoidea - superfamil; Nolidae - family ; Nolinae - subfamily; Nolini - tribe; Nolina - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus):

Derived terms

• Meganola

References

• Nola (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nolina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nola on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Nola.

Proper noun

Nola

1. A city in Campania, Italy.
2. Its bishopric.

Related terms

• nola

Etymology 2

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

Proper noun

Nola

1. A female given name from Irish.
   • 2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33:

     "What kind of name is Nola?"
     "My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out."
     "Excuse me?"
     "You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian Nola.

Proper noun

Nola (plural Nolas)

1. A surname from Italian.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Nola is the 34574^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 654 individuals. Nola is most common among White (80.58%) individuals.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊ.lə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Proper noun

Nola

1. Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 675.

Anagrams

• Anlo, loan, lona

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Nola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: Nò‧la

Proper noun

Nola f

1. A town in Campania, Italy near Naples

Proper noun

Nola m or f by sense

1. a habitational surname

Derived terms

• nolano

Latin

Etymology

From its earlier name Nuvlana, from Oscan 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌋𐌀 (núula), from 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌄𐌋𐌀 (núuela), from 𐌍𐌞 (nú, “new (city)”) + the suffix -*la.

Proper noun

Nola

1. Nola (a town in Campania, Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nola
Genitive	Nolae
Dative	Nolae
Accusative	Nolam
Ablative	Nolā
Vocative	Nola
Locative	Nolae

Derived terms

• nola

Further reading

• “Nola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Nola”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “Nola”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nola”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Nola”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 341
• TI: Pellegrini, G.B., Toponomastica italiana, Milano, Hoepli, 1990, p. 63
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2202, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2202