Noun: noia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: nò‧ia
| Singular f | noia |
| Plural f | noie |
Sample Sentences
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Le dà noia? (Does it bother you?)
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Ma tu perché ritorni a tanta noia? / perché non sali il dilettoso monte / ch’è principio e cagion di tutta gioia? (But why do you go back to such anguish? Why don't you climb the delightful mount which is the source and cause of every joy?) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like noia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably from Old Occitan enoja, from enojar, ultimately from Latin inodiō. See more at annoiare. Cognate with French ennui, Spanish enojo, Portuguese nojo and Galician noxo. See: French Nouns '
ennui', Spanish Nouns '
enojo', Portuguese Nouns '
nojo', Galician Nouns '
noxo'.
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