Nola

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Nola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nolidae – certain moths.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Noctuoidea – superfamily; Nolidae – family; Nolinae – subfamily; Nolini – tribe; Nolina – subtribe

• (genus): Nola cucullatella – type species

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From Latin Nola.

Nola

1. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
2. Its bishopric.

• nola

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

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."

2. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.

Borrowed from Italian Nola.

Nola (plural Nolas)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Nola is the 34574^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 654 individuals. Nola is most common among White (80.58%) individuals.

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

Nola

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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 675.

• Laon, loan, Alon, lona, Anlo

From Latin Nola.

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

Nola f

1. a town in Campania, Italy near Naples

Nola m or f by sense

1. a habitational surname

• nolano

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

Nola

1. Nola (a town in Campania, Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• nola

• “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.
• Nola, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Nola”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nola”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• “Nola”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• 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) “2202”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2202