Madonna

madonna madonną Madonną English Alternative forms en Madona obsolete Etymology From en it madonna, from Old en it ma my + it donna lady. The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. en madam. Pronunciation en /məˈdɒnə/ en En-us-Madonna.oga US Proper noun s (the) Madonna en Christianity sometimes with definite article en Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts. en female Italian. en 1835 w:Fraser's Magazine XI 652 June We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere. en 2005 Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner Freakonomics 184 Allen Lane 2005 0713998067 But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings―in California, no less―required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn. en Alan Baggett God’s Will February 2013 39 978-0-9879152-4-5 MADONNA(S) Yes. (They look at each other with surprise. The room goes silent.) MR. STEIN Two Madonnas? (Pause.) MR. STEIN Did either of you know God? EIGHTIES MADONNA I knew of Him. BIBLICAL MADONNA We had a Son together. MR. STEIN I’m going to have to ask you to leave. (The eighties Madonna gets up with a smile and then without uttering another word flounces out of the room loudly humming the tune ‘Like a Virgin’.) Derived terms en madonna Madonnabe Madonna blue Madonna braid Madonnaesque Madonnahood Madonnaish Madonna-like Madonna lily Madonnamania Madonna piercing Madonna-whore complex Madonnawise Black Madonna Translations Mary, mother of Jesus Mary Our Lady Note: This is only for direct translations of "Madonna." Titles that literally mean en Our Lady or other titles in the language in question should be listed at those entries. Bulgarian: bg Мадо́на f Esperanto: eo Madono French: fr Madone f German: de Madonna f Hungarian: hu Madonna Italian: it Madonna f Maltese: mt Madonna Polish: pl Madonna f Russian: ru Мадо́нна f Sicilian: scn Madonna f, scn Madonna f Noun An artistic representation of the Virgin Mary, chiefly when holding the infant Jesus. en A beautiful example of this type of Madonna is the polyptych in the Museo Civico in Sansepolcro. en Art Galleries of Florence The World’s Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature, Fully Illustrated IX Chicago, Ill. The Delphian Society 1913 114 https://archive.org/details/worldsprogress09delpiala/page/114/mode/1up So many Madonnas were produced during the Renaissance that it became the habit to distinguish them by any peculiarity. A morally pure woman. en Deborah Copaken Kogan Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War Villard Books 2000 52 9780375503641 “Men,” I said, with a tone of disgust. “Halal circles, haram circles, good, bad, Madonnas, whores, goats, penises, it’s all the same.” en Paul Gordon Dial “M” for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock w:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2008 205 978-0-8386-4133-0 the mothers who, like Sebastian’s mother in Notorious or Mitch’s mother Lydia in The Birds, block such a transference, or by potential love-objects who are, themselves, Madonnas, whores, or otherwise thinly disguised maternal figures. en Maureen Canning Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008 182 978-1-4022-0868-3 The Madonnas are the mothers to our children, the pillars of our families, and the goddesses of our communities. The Madonnas shun the dark side of human sexuality and banish the whores to hell. We put the Madonnas on a pedestal, and we can’t think of them as being sexual or sexy because they must be pure. They must be virginal like the Madonna herself. en Devorah Heitner Black Power TV w:Duke University Press 2013 79 978-0-8223-5409-3 Sparing no one in her response to her interviewer’s questions about the ERA, she alludes to divisions within the women’s movement, referring to the factions as “Madonnas, whores, housewives, and lesbians.” en Chris Kelly; Carmen Hahn Clinical Psychology ED-Tech Press 2019 2020 129 978-1-83947-405-7 In sexual politics the view of women as either Madonnas or whores limits women’s sexual expression, offering two mutually exclusive ways to construct a sexual identity. Alternative forms en madonna Translations representation of Virgin Mary Catalan: ca marededeu f Finnish: fi madonnankuva See also en Mona References Ginny Kubitz Moyer Where did the title “Madonna” come from for Mary? Busted Halo https://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/where-did-the-title-%E2%80%9Cmadonna%E2%80%9D-come-from-for-mary Paulist Fathers 11 January 2010 More rarely, it’s [“Madonna”] used for images that depict Mary without Jesus. https://web.archive.org/web/20260104195022/https://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/where-did-the-title-%E2%80%9Cmadonna%E2%80%9D-come-from-for-mary 4 January 2026 en Biblical characters Catholicism Female people Hungarian Etymology From hu it madonna, from Old Italian it ma my + it donna lady. It was first attested in 1552 and its meaning was primarily (Italian) woman. Its use in the sense of the Virgin Mary was attested much later, in 1844. Pronunciation hu Ma don na hu nɒ 3 Proper noun hu proper noun Madonna the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Declension Madonná oMadonná References Italian Pronunciation Madònna Proper noun f + en Madonna, Our Lady it Vergine Maria Maria it slang the shit it Gesù Cristo<lit:Jesus Christ> stocazzo<lit:these nuts> it Giuro che non la sopporto: si crede la Madonna ed è scema in culo. I swear I can't stand her: she thinks she's the shit but she's dumb as fuck. it slang holy shit it "Sai che ieri ho vinto cinquemila euro alle macchinette?" "E la Madonna!" "You know, yesterday I won five grands at the slot machine." "Holy shit!" Usage notes As part of Italian bestemmie, a very vulgar set of expletives based on mocking religious figures, the word Madonna is used in conjunction with any word that is understood to mean a prostitute, either as a normal adjective-substantive combination ("Madonna it puttana!") or as a verbless nominal phrase ("Puttana la Madonna!"). Anagrams it aadmnno mandano mondana it Christianity Polish pl: Etymology pl :bor it:Madonna<ety:uder<la:mea domina>> 2 1 Pronunciation Pl-Madonna.ogg madonna Proper noun f pl Christianity en Madonna, Our Lady pl Matka Boska pl art Christianity artistic depiction of Mary with the infant Jesus Declension Further reading Sicilian Alternative forms scn Madò apheretic, interjection scn Maronna Marò rhoticized Etymology Derived, through M(e)a Dom(i)na, from la mea my, of mine domina lady 1. scn mea donna. Cognate with it,nap Madonna. Pronunciation scn /maˈdɔn.na/ [maˈdɔ.nːa] [maˈɾɔ.nːa] scn ɔnna scn Ma dòn na Proper noun scn proper noun scn Christianity en Madonna, Our Lady scn Beḍḍa Matri Marìa Matri di Diu Coordinate terms scn Madonna dû voscu Madonna dâ nivi Madonna nìgura Madonna dû Tìnnaru Madonna dâ jaḍḍina Madonna dâ catina Derived terms scn Madunnuzza Madunneḍḍa madunnaru Madunnina Related terms scn marianu Marianu jastìmia matri-crisiaru See also scn Signuri Gisù Diu cruci prisepi festa missa