Nicaea

Nicaea

See also: Nicæa

English

Alternative forms

• Nicæa (archaic)

Etymology

Via Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”). Doublet of İznik and Nice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈsiːə/

Proper noun

Nicaea

1. (historical) An ancient city in Bithynia in Asia Minor, important during Roman and Byzantine times, on the site of modern-day İznik, Turkey, to which it gave its name. Famous as the site of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which composed the Nicene Creed.

Translations

ancient city

Ancient Greek: Νίκαια f (Níkaia) Armenian: Նիկիա (Nikia) Old Armenian: Նիկիա (Nikia) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܹܩܝܼܵܐ‎ f (Neqiya) Danish: Nikæa Farefare: Nikea Finnish: Nikea French: Nicée (fr) German: Nicäa (de) f Greek: Νίκαια (el) f (Níkaia) Icelandic: Níkea f Italian: Nicea f Korean: 니케아 (Nikea) Latin: Nīcaea f Persian: نیقیه‎ (niqiye) Portuguese: Niceia f Russian: Нике́я (ru) f (Nikéja)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niːˈkae̯.a/, [niːˈkäe̯ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niˈt͡ʃe.a/, [niˈt͡ʃɛːä]

Proper noun

Nīcaea f sg (genitive Nīcaeae); first declension

1. Nicaea, Hellenic city in northwestern Anatolia
2. Nice, France
3. Nikaia, Greece
4. Nisa, Portugal

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nīcaea
Genitive	Nīcaeae
Dative	Nīcaeae
Accusative	Nīcaeam
Ablative	Nīcaeā
Vocative	Nīcaea
Locative	Nīcaeae

References

• “Nicaea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nicaea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette