Noun: lonza
Gender: f
Hyphenation: lón‧za
| Singular f | lonza |
| Plural f | lonze |
Sample Sentences
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Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; […] (And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 31–33; 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 lonza
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
3. Proto-Indo-European *lú(n)ḱs
4. Proto-Hellenic *lúnks
5. Ancient Greek λύγξ (lúnx)bor.
6. Latin lynx
7. Vulgar Latin *luncea?
8. Italian lonza
9. Probably from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, whence also Italian lince (a borrowed doublet). Cognate to French once. See: Latin Nouns '
lynx', French Nouns '
once'.
Verbs referencing "lonza"
Catalan Nouns
onça.
Translations