domna

Syncope of domina. Widely used in Vulgar, Late and Medieval Latin

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdom.na/, [ˈd̪ɔmnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdom.na/, [ˈd̪ɔmnä]

domna f (genitive domnae, masculine domnus); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) lady, mistress

First-declension noun.

• *domnicella

• French: dame
• Italian: donna
• Old Occitan: domna, doma, dompna
  • Occitan: dòna
• Portuguese: dona
• Romanian: doamnă
• Spanish: dueña

• domna 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)
• domna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

domna ? (^??? please provide the declension type!)

1. blast furnace

• doma, dompna

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔmna/

domna f (oblique plural domnas, nominative singular domna, nominative plural domnas)

1. woman, lady (female adult human being)
   • circa 1000, author unknown, Boecis:

     E sa ma dextra la domna u libre te

     In her right hand, the woman held a book.

   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, ‘Canso’:

     Qual pro y auretz, dompna conja, / Si vostr’amors mi deslonja?

     What gain for you, beautiful lady, if you distance me from your love?

   • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Pel doutz chan que.l rossinhols fai:

     Domna, vostre sui e serai

     Woman, yours I am and yours I will be.

• Occitan: dòna