donno

donno

1. Alternative form of dunno.
   • 1879 July, “Massy Sprague’s Daughter”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 June 2022:

     [T]here ain’t any use in making her mad at me by tellin’ her. Besides, I donno but what it would make her go out of her head, she’d be so mad.

   • 1932, Grace Livingston Hill, chapter 6, in The Patch of Blue, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Company, Limited, published in the 20th century, →OCLC, page 128:

     Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High. He wouldn’t know me from a bag a beans.

   • 2010 July 13, Farhad Manjoo, “Yes, Ill Matty You”, in Slate‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2021:

     On the Motorola Droid, you might aim for "mmm, I donno about that restaurant" but get, "Mommy, I donno" instead.

From Late Latin domnus, shortened variant of Latin dominus. Cognates include Aromanian domnu, Romanian domn, Aragonese and Spanish dueño, Galician and Portuguese dono. Doublet of domino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔn.no/
• Rhymes: -ɔnno
• Hyphenation: dòn‧no

donno m (plural donni)

1. synonym of signore
2. synonym of don

• don

• donno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana