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From Italian donna. Doublet of dame and domina.
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.
donna (slang)
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. |
- “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
donna
- third-person singular past historic of donner
donna
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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. |
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. Cognate with Sicilian donna.
donna f (plural donne, diminutive 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
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 |
donna
donna f (definite singular donnaa, indefinite plural donnaer, definite plural donnaene)
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- “donna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
donna oblique singular, ? (oblique plural donnas, nominative singular donna, nominative plural donnas)
- ronna (rhoticized)
From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Cognate with Italian donna, French dame, Portuguese dona, Spanish donna and dueña.
donna f (plural donni)
- (honorific) A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership; a mistress
- (card games) queen
- Synonym: fìmmina
- (archaic, noble title) lady
- (non common) woman
- (non common, by extension) wife
- Synonym: mugghieri
- (masculine form) don
- → Italian: donna (regional)
Borrowed from Italian donna. Attested since 1841.
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 of donna | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | donna | donnan | donnor | donnorna |
Genitive | donnas | donnans | donnors | donnornas |