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 (General Australian): (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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[edit]Finnish
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[edit]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 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 | |
abessive | donnatta | donnitta | |
instructive | — | donnin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “donna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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[edit]French
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[edit]Verb
[edit]donna
- third-person singular past historic of donner
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]donna
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 (also, “house-husband”), augmentative donnóna or donnóne m, pejorative donnàccia (“bad-tempered woman or woman of bad habits”), derogatory donnàccola (“common womman; gossip”) or donnùcola (“poor woman in bad conditions”) or donnàcchera (“filthy or cowardly woman”), diminutive-derogatory donnùccia or donnicciòla (also, “weak or gossipy man”))
- woman
- (archaic) lady
- wife
- Synonym: moglie
- (card games) queen
- Synonym: regina
- actress
- Synonym: attrice
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re | regina, donna |
torre | alfiere | cavallo | pedone |
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asso | due | tre | quattro | cinque | sei | sette |
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otto | nove | dieci | fante | donna, regina |
re | jolly, joker, matta |
Anagrams
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[edit]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 |
References
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- Rhymes:Finnish/onːɑ
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