nonnus

== 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnɔn.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɔn.nus] === Noun === nonnus m (genitive nonnī, feminine nonna); second declension (Late Latin) monk tutor old man ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “nonnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "nonnus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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