nonna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian nonna.

Noun

nonna (plural nonnas)

1. (dialectal) grandmother
   • 2009 July 29, Alex Witchel, “Borscht: What Would Nana Say?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas, or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy.

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay nyonya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.naː/
• 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

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Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔn.na/

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Noun

nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno)

1. grandmother, granny

Derived terms

• bisnonna
• trisnonna

Coordinate terms

• nonno (“grandfather”)

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Latin

Etymology

Late Latin. Feminine of nonnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.na/, [ˈnɔnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.na/, [ˈnɔnːä]

Noun

nonna f (genitive nonnae); first declension

1. nun

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nonna	nonnae
Genitive	nonnae	nonnārum
Dative	nonnae	nonnīs
Accusative	nonnam	nonnās
Ablative	nonnā	nonnīs
Vocative	nonna	nonnae

Related terms

• nonnus

Descendants

• English: nun
• French: nonne
• Friulian: none

• German: Nonne
• Italian: nonna
• Old French: none, nonain

• Neapolitan: nonna
• Romansch: nona
• Venetian: nona

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nonna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• nonna in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnɔnnɐ/

Noun

nonna f (plural nnonne)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nonnen

Noun

nonna m or f

1. definite feminine singular of nonne

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nonna f

1. definite singular of nonne