Dona or Dono
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Dona -
DONA is feminine
Portuguese Name's abbreviation of Dom/Dona, is D.
(o) A letter is bracket ( ) it means that the letter is witten very
small and higher up beside the other letters in the original documents
(same as the "o" in the degree Celcius).
Information is from:
The internet, Title: <center><em>Portuguese Genealogy abbreviations
Helper.</head> Web page: http://www.frenet.edmonton.ab.ca/%7Efcandido/abbreviation.html,
date printed: 11/29/97, page 1 of 3.
The town of Aldeia da Dona, is in the Province of Guarda, Portugal.
Information is from:
SPAIN PORTUGAL, American Map Corporation, Maspeth, NY, 1996, page 179.
Dona - substantive feminine, Lady (a title given to ladies of
quality); donna, mistress. / d. de casa, landlady house-wife / uma boa
d. de casa, a good house wife, one who runs her house well.
Information is from:
Júlio Albino Ferreira, Dr. Armando de Morais, DICIONARIO PORTUGUES-
INGLES, Editorial Domingos Barreira, Rua Oliveira Monteiro, 343 -
Porto, Portugal, 1952, page 273-274.
DONA
[d'onə] substantive feminine donna, lady, mistress; proprietress;
woman, wife, spouse. = de casa housewife.
Information is from: NTC's Compact Portuguese and English Dictionary,
NTC Publishing Group, Lincolnwood, IL, USA, 1995, Page 507.
DONA is feminine
Etymology
From Latin domina.
[edit] Noun
dona f. (plural dones)
woman
wife
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dona
DONO
Dono is masculine
[d'onu] substantive masculine master; keeper, holder; owner,
proprietor, lord, landlord.
Information is from: NTC's Compact Portuguese and English Dictionary,
NTC Publishing Group, Lincolnwood, IL, USA, 1995, Page 507.