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nona | nonna |

Nonna is a descendant of nona.



As a proper noun Nona

is the youngest of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the spinner of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Clotho.

As a noun nonna is

grandmother.

nona

English

(wikipedia Nona)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (Roman god) The youngest of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the spinner of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Clotho.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Morta * Decima

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    nonna

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) grandmother
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 29, author=Alex Witchel, title=Borscht: What Would Nana Say?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas , or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy. }} ----