nonnus

Perhaps from children's speech dating back to a late Proto-Indo-European *nana-. See also Ancient Greek νόννος (nónnos, “father”), νέννος (nénnos, “uncle”), νάννας (nánnas, “uncle”), νίννη (nínnē, “aunt”), and Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nus/, [ˈnɔn.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnon.nus/

nonnus m (genitive nonnī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. monk
2. tutor
3. old person

Second declension.

• nonna

• nonnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nonnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nonnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• nonnus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nonnus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray