The story
- Latin · derived fromdomina“Lady”
- Vulgar Latin · derived fromdonna
- Old Spanish · borrowed fromduenna
- English todayduenna
From Old Spanish duenna or dueña, from Vulgar Latin donna, from Latin domina (“Lady”). Doublet of dame.
Words from the same roots
Latindomina all →
damedominadamselbeldame
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.