nonnus

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from children's speech dating back to a late Proto-Indo-European *nana-. See also Ancient Greek νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νέννος (nénnos, “uncle”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”), νίννη (nínnē, “aunt”), and Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nus/, [ˈnɔnːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nus/, [ˈnɔnːus]

Noun

nonnus m (genitive nonnī, feminine nonna); second declension (Late Latin)

1. monk
2. tutor
3. old man

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nonnus	nonnī
Genitive	nonnī	nonnōrum
Dative	nonnō	nonnīs
Accusative	nonnum	nonnōs
Ablative	nonnō	nonnīs
Vocative	nonne	nonnī

Descendants

• Romanian: nun
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Istriot: nono
  • Italian: nonno
    • → English: nonno
    • → Mòcheno: nono
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: nono
  • Romansch: non
• Sicilian: nannu
• Venetian: nono
  • → Cimbrian: nono, nóono
  • → Portuguese: nono
• West Iberian
  • >? Portuguese: Nuno
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: nono
    • Spanish: ñoño

• → Albanian: nun

References

• “nonnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nonnus 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)
• nonnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nonnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nonnus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray