# nonna
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɒnə/, /ˈnɔːnə/, /ˈnoʊnə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnə(ɹ), -ɔːnə(ɹ), -əʊnə(ɹ)

### Noun

nonna (plural nonnas)
* (informal) A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
** 2009 July 29, Alex Witchel, “Borscht: What Would Nana Say?”, in New York Times‎:An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas, or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy.

#### Coordinate terms

* nonno (“grandfather”)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay nyonya.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔ.naː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: non‧na

### Noun

nonna f (plural nonna's, diminutive nonnaatje n)
* (historical) a (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent
* (historical) a young lady, a miss

#### Related terms

* nonnie

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: nonna

## Italian
### Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔn.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnna
* Hyphenation: nòn‧na

### Noun

nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno, pejorative nonnàccia, endearing nonnùccia, diminutive-endearing nonnétta or nonnettìna or nonnìna)
* grandmother, granny

#### Coordinate terms

* nonno (“grandfather”)

#### Derived terms

* bisnonna
* trisnonna

#### Descendants

* → English: nonna
* → Greek: νόνα (nóna)
* → Italiot Greek: nunna
* → Mòcheno: nu'na

#### See also

* (family members) famiglia; cugino, figlio, figlia, fratello, madre, marito, moglie, nipote, nonna, nonno, padre, sorella, zia, zio

## Latin
### Etymology

Feminine of nonnus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnon.na/, [ˈnɔnːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnon.na/, [ˈnɔnːä]

### Noun

nonna f (genitive nonnae, masculine nonnus); first declension (Late Latin)
* nun
* tutor (female), tutoress (dated, may now be sexist), tutrix (obsolete)
* old woman

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italo-Dalmatian
** Italian: nonna
*** → English: nonna
*** → Greek: νόνα (nóna)
*** → Italiot Greek: nunna
*** → Mòcheno: nu'na
** Neapolitan: nonna
** Sicilian: nanna
* Old French: none (nom.sg), nonain
** French: nonne
** Norman: nonne
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Friulian: none
** Ladino: nona
** Romansch: nona
* Venetan: nona
** → Cimbrian: nona, nóona
** → Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: nona
** → Portuguese: nona
* → Proto-West Germanic: *nunnā (see there for further descendants)

### References

* “nonna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "nonna", 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)
* nonna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* nonna in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin nonna.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈnɔnnə/

### Noun

nonna f (plural nonne)
* grandmother
* beddy-bye

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 17: “la nostra nonna” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* nonnen m sg

### Noun

nonna f sg
* definite feminine singular of nonne

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

nonna f sg
* definite feminine singular of nonne