nonnus

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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

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
  • Rhaeto-Romance
  • Sicilian: nannu
  • Venetian: nono
  • West Iberian
  • → 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
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