donna
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian donna. Doublet of dame and domina.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒn.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑ.nə/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒnə, -ɑnə
Noun edit
donna (plural donnas)
- A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
- Synonyms: lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman
- Coordinate term: don
- 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.
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Noun edit
donna (slang)
Declension edit
Inflection of donna (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | donna | donnat | ||
genitive | donnan | donnien | ||
partitive | donnaa | donnia | ||
illative | donnaan | donniin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | donna | donnat | ||
accusative | nom. | donna | donnat | |
gen. | donnan | |||
genitive | donnan | donnien donnainrare | ||
partitive | donnaa | donnia | ||
inessive | donnassa | donnissa | ||
elative | donnasta | donnista | ||
illative | donnaan | donniin | ||
adessive | donnalla | donnilla | ||
ablative | donnalta | donnilta | ||
allative | donnalle | donnille | ||
essive | donnana | donnina | ||
translative | donnaksi | donniksi | ||
abessive | donnatta | donnitta | ||
instructive | — | donnin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “donna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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donna
- third-person singular past historic of donner
Irish edit
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donna
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
donna | dhonna | ndonna |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Italian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
donna f (plural donne, diminutive (sometimes derogatory or endearing) donnétta; donnìna or donnìno m, augmentative donnóna or donnóne m, pejorative donnàccia, derogatory donnàccola or donnùcola or donnàcchera, diminutive-derogatory donnùccia or donnicciòla)
- woman
- (archaic) lady
- wife
- Synonym: moglie
- (card games) queen
- Synonym: regina
- actress
- Synonym: attrice
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Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text) | |||||
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re | regina, donna |
torre | alfiere | cavallo | pedone |
Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text) | ||||||
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asso | due | tre | quattro | cinque | sei | sette |
otto | nove | dieci | fante | donna, regina |
re | jolly, joker, matta |
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donna
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
donna f (definite singular donnaa, indefinite plural donnaer, definite plural donnaene)
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References edit
- “donna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Noun edit
donna oblique singular, ? (oblique plural donnas, nominative singular donna, nominative plural donnas)
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian donna. Attested since 1841.
Noun edit
donna c
- (colloquial, often ironic or somewhat derogatory) a (younger) woman
- Nisse kom på besök med sin nya donna
- Nisse dropped by with his new girlfriend
- a donna
Declension edit
Declension of donna | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | donna | donnan | donnor | donnorna |
Genitive | donnas | donnans | donnors | donnornas |