Nola
See also: nola and NOLA
English
Etymology 1
From Latin Nola.
Proper noun
Nola
- A city in Campania, Italy.
- Its bishopric.
Related terms
- nola
Etymology 2
From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).
Proper noun
Nola
- 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."
- "What kind of name is Nola?"
- 2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33:
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Italian Nola.
Proper noun
Nola (plural Nolas)
- 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
- Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 675.
Anagrams
- Anlo, loan, lona
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Nola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.la/
- Rhymes: -ɔla
- Hyphenation: Nò‧la
Proper noun
Nola f
- A town in Campania, Italy near Naples
Proper noun
Nola m or f by sense
- a habitational surname
Derived terms
- nolano
Latin
Etymology
From its earlier name Nuvlana, from Oscan 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌋𐌀 (núula), from 𐌍𐌞𐌖𐌄𐌋𐌀 (núuela), from 𐌍𐌞 (nú, “new (city)”) + the suffix -*la.
Proper noun
Nola
- Nola (a town in Campania, Italy)
Derived terms
- nola
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