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donzella

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
donzel-la
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A female donzel.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Italian donzella, from Old Occitan donçela, donsela, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella. Compare donzel. Doublet of damsel, demoiselle, and doncella.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: donzella, donçela, *domnicella

Usage

Inflected Forms

donzellas (plural)

Questions

What does donzella mean?
A female donzel.
Where does donzella come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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