Una
See also: Appendix:Variations of "una"
English
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːnə
Proper noun
Una
- A female given name from Irish.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:
- Who after that he had faire Una lorne, / Through light misdeeming of her loialtie, / And false Duessa in her sted had borne, […]
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Faroese
Proper noun
Una f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Una: Unuson
- daughter of Una: Unudóttir
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | |
| nominative | Una |
| accusative | Unu |
| dative | Unu |
| genitive | Unu |
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1938. From Latin una (“one”), or possibly from English Una.
Proper noun
Una f
- a female given name
References
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Una was the only given name of 1163 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Portuguese
Proper noun
Una ?
- a municipality of Bahia, Brazil