Word Origin Summary

Prima donna is attested in Italian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• prima donna

  English · borrowed from

• prímadonna

  Icelandic · borrowed from

• primadonna

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• primadona

  Indonesian · derived from

• primadono

  Esperanto · borrowed from

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