anonyma

English

Noun

anonyma (plural anonymas)

1. (obsolete) A courtesan; a female prostitute.
   • 1869, Fanny Aikin Kortright, Pro aris et focis. [On women's work.], page 30:

     They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.

   • 1880, Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works, page 37:

     A 'fine lady,' presumably an Anonyma of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Latin

Adjective

anōnyma

1. inflection of anōnymus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

anōnymā

1. ablative feminine singular of anōnymus