English

Proper noun

Nola

1. A city in Campania in Italy.
2. Its bishopric.

Related terms

• nola

Etymology 2

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

Proper noun

Nola

1. A female given name.
   • 2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33:

     "What kind of name is Nola?"
     "My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out."
     "Excuse me?"
     "You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Nola

1. Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Nola.

Proper noun

Nola ?

1. Nola: a town near Naples in Campania in Italy.

Derived terms

• nolano

Latin

Etymology

From its earlier name Nuvlana.

Proper noun

Nola

1. Nola: a town in Campania in Italy.

Derived terms

• nola

References

• Nola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Nola”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

nola

1. A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.^[2][3]

References

1. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
2. 1 2 Walters, Henry Beauchamp. Church Bells of England, p. 3.
3. ↑ Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, p. 452.

Latin

Etymology

Traditionally reckoned from Nola in Italy, from its having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony,^[1] but possibly Onomatopoeic.^[2]

Noun

nola

1. A nola: a small bell used in the choir during consecration.

References

• nola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• NOLA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nola”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• nola in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nola in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• nola in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• nola in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

1. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
2. ↑ H.B. Walters, Church Bells of England, p. 3.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) nulla
• (Sursilvan) nul
• (Sutsilvan) nula
• (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) nolla

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Numeral

nola

1. (cardinal, Sutsilvan) zero