Nola

See also: nola and NOLA

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Nola.

Proper noun

Nola

  1. A city in Campania, Italy.
  2. Its bishopric.

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

Nola

  1. 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."

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian Nola.

Proper noun

Nola (plural Nolas)

  1. 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.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /noʊ.lə/
  • Rhymes: -əʊlə

Proper noun

Nola

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

Further reading

Anagrams


Italian

Etymology

From Latin Nola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɔla
  • Hyphenation: Nò‧la

Proper noun

Nola f

  1. A town in Campania, Italy near Naples

Proper noun

Nola m or f by sense

  1. a habitational surname

Derived terms


Latin

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Nola

  1. Nola (a town in Campania, Italy)

Derived terms

References

  • 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
  • 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) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2202
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