# Nola
## Translingual

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### Etymology

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### Proper noun

Nola f
* A taxonomic genus within the family Nolidae – certain moths.

#### Hypernyms

* (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Noctuoidea – superfamily; Nolidae – family; Nolinae – subfamily; Nolini – tribe; Nolina – subtribe

#### Hyponyms

* (genus): Nola cucullatella – type species

#### Derived terms

* Archinola
* Eurynola
* Meganola
* Metanola
* Micronola
* Neonola
* Nolathirpa
* Nolatype
* Paranola
* Poecilonola
* Supernola
* Xenonola

### References

* Nola (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Nola (Nolina) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Nola on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## English
### Etymology 1

From Latin Nola.

#### Proper noun

Nola
* A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
* Its bishopric.

##### Related terms

* nola

### Etymology 2

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

#### Proper noun

Nola
* A female given name from Irish.
** 2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33:
    "What kind of name is Nola?" "My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out." "Excuse me?" "You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."
* An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian Nola.

#### Proper noun

Nola (plural Nolas)
* A surname from Italian.

##### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Nola is the 34574th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 654 individuals. Nola is most common among White (80.58%) individuals.

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /noʊ.lə/
* Rhymes: -əʊlə

#### Proper noun

Nola
* Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 675.

### Anagrams

* Laon, loan, Alon, lona, Anlo

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin Nola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Hyphenation: Nò‧la

### Proper noun

Nola f
* A town in Campania, Italy near Naples

### Proper noun

Nola m or f by sense
* a habitational surname

#### Derived terms

* nolano

## Latin
### Etymology

From its earlier name Nuvlana, from Oscan 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌋𐌀 (núula), from 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌄𐌋𐌀 (núuela), from 𐌍𐌞 (nú, “new (city)”) + the suffix -*la.

### Proper noun

Nola
* Nola (a town in Campania, Italy)

#### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* nola

### Further reading

* “Nola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Nola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Nola, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
* “Nola”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “Nola”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
* “Nola”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992, p. 341
* TI: Pellegrini, G.B., Toponomastica italiana, Milano, Hoepli, 1990, p. 63
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2202”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2202