Noun: madama
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ma‧dà‧ma
| Singular f | madama |
| Plural f | madame |
Nouns inflected like madama
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
Borrowed from French madame or Calque of French madame. Sense two derives from the fact that during the mid-19ᵗʰ century, the main police headquarters in Turin were seated in Palazzo Madama. See: French Nouns '
madame', French Nouns '
madame'.
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