doncella
Spanish
/donˈθe.ʎa/, /donˈse.ʝa/
noun
Definitions
- maid, maiden, damsel girl or an unmarried young woman
- abigail, lady's maid female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *domnicella, domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household).
Origin
Latin
domina
Gloss
mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- demoiselle English
- domina English
- doncella English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- donzella Italian
- dame French
- demoiselle French
- mademoiselle French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- damisela Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- donzela Portuguese
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dame Old French
- damoisele Old French
- donicela Galician
- donselya Cebuano
- donezỹa Old Portuguese
- donzela Old Portuguese
- donçela Old Occitan
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- daime Bourguignon
- danme Picard