donna

See also: Donna, dónna, dònna, and Dønna

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 23 November 2014

EtymologyEdit

From Italian donna.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒn.ə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.nə/
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NounEdit

donna (plural donnas)

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.

SynonymsEdit

(lady): lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman

Coordinate termsEdit

(lady): don

TranslationsEdit

lady, madam, title given to a lady in Italy

Italian: donna (it) f

Swedish: donna (sv)

AnagramsEdit

Danno, Nando, nonad, nonda

FinnishEdit

NounEdit

donna

(slang) woman

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of donna (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		donna	donnat
genitive		donnan	donnien
partitive		donnaa	donnia
illative		donnaan	donniin
		singular	plural
nominative		donna	donnat
accusative	nom.	donna	donnat
accusative	gen.	donnan	donnat
genitive		donnan	donnien donnain^rare
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
instructive		—	donnin
abessive		donnatta	donnitta
comitative		—	donnineen

AnagramsEdit

nadon

FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

donna

third-person singular past historic of donner

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔn̪ˠə/, /ˈd̪ˠʊn̪ˠə/

AdjectiveEdit

donna

nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural of donn

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
donna	dhonna	ndonna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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