Nicholas

Nicholas

English

Alternative forms

• Nicolas
• Nickolas, Nikolas (usually of non-English origin)

Etymology

From Middle English Nicholas, from Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) +‎ λαός (laós, “people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪk.ə.ləs/, /ˈnɪk.ləs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkələs, -ɪkləs
• Homophone: knickerless (non-rhotic accents)

Proper noun

Nicholas (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholases)

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek. Best known for St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is based.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I'll give thee this neck.

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book V, page 182:

     I must call you Nick—we always did call you young Nick when we knew you meant to marry the old widow. Some said you had a handsome family likeness to old Nick, but that was your mother's fault, calling you Nicholas. Aren't you glad to see me again?

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
4. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

Derived terms

• Deeping St Nicholas
• Nicholas County
• Nicholasville

 

Related terms

• Santa Claus

male given names

• Claus
• Colin
• Klaus
• Nichol
• Nicol

 

pet forms

• Cole
• Kolya
• Nick
• Nicky
• Nico

 

female given names

• Colette
• Nicki
• Nicola
• Nicole
• Nikki

 

surnames

• Coales
• Cole
• Coles
• Colin
• Coll
• Collard
• Colle
• Collen
• Collet
• Collett
• Collin
• Colling
• Collinge
• Collings
• Collins
• Collinson
• Collis
• Collison
• Colls
• Collyns
• Colson
• Coules
• Coulson
• Cowles
• Cowling
• Nichol
• Nicholds
• Nicholl
• Nicholls
• Nichols
• Nicholson
• Nickalls
• Nickel
• Nickell
• Nickells
• Nickels
• Nickerson
• Nickisson
• Nickle
• Nickless
• Nicklin
• Nickolds
• Nickolls
• Nickols
• Nicks
• Nickson
• Nicol
• Nicolas
• Nicoll
• Nicolls
• Nicolson
• Nix
• Nixon
• Nixson

 

Translations

male given name

Albanian: Nikolla, Nishi, Kollë Arabic: نِقُولَا‎ (Niqūlā) (transliteration) Armenian: Նիկողայոս (Nikołayos), Նիկողոս (Nikołos) Basque: Nikolas Belarusian: Мікала́й m (Mikaláj) Breton: Nikolaz (br) Bulgarian: Никола (bg) (Nikola), Николай (Nikolaj) Catalan: Nicolau (ca), Micolau Chinese: Mandarin: 尼古拉斯 (zh) (nígǔlāsī) (transliteration) Chuvash: Микулай (Mik̬ulaj) Czech: Mikuláš (cs) m, Mikoláš, Nikola (cs) m Danish: Niels (da), Niklas Dutch: Nicolaas (nl) Esperanto: Nikolao Faroese: Niklas m Finnish: Niilo (fi), Niko (fi) French: Nicolas (fr) Middle French: Nicolas Friulian: Niculau Galician: Nicolau (gl) Georgian: ნიკოლოზ (niḳoloz) German: Nikolaus (de), Klaus (de) Greek: Νικόλαος (el) (Nikólaos), Νικόλας (el) (Nikólas) Greenlandic: Nikkulaat, Niisi Hungarian: Miklós (hu) Icelandic: Nikulás (is) Irish: Nioclás Italian: Nicola (it), Niccolò Japanese: (transliteration) ニコラス (Nikorasu) Kazakh: Николай (Nikolai) Korean: 니콜라스 (Nikollaseu) Ladin: Nuclò Latin: Nīcolāus m Latvian: Nikolajs Lithuanian: Mikalojus (lt), Mikas Low German: Nickel, Klaas Luxembourgish: Nicolas Macedonian: Ни́кола (Níkola) Maori: Nīkora Northern Sami: Niillas Norwegian: Nils (no) Bokmål: Nikolai (no) Occitan: Micolau m, Colau m Persian: نیکولاس‎ (Nikolâs) Polish: Mikołaj (pl) m Portuguese: Nicolau (pt) Romanian: Nicolae (ro) Russian: Никола́й (ru) m (Nikoláj) (cognate), Николас (ru) m (Nikolas) (transliteration) Scottish Gaelic: Nicol, Neacail Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Нѝкола m, Ни́ко m Roman: Nìkola (sh) m, Níko m Sicilian: Nicuola m Slovak: Mikuláš m Slovene: Mikávž m, Nikoláj (sl) m Spanish: Nicolás (es) Swahili: Nikolau Swedish: Nils (sv), Nikolaus (sv), Niklas (sv), Klas (sv) Thai: นิโคลัส (níkohlát) Ukrainian: Микола (Mykola), Миколай (Mykolaj) (old style) Venetian: Nicołò Vietnamese: Nicôla Walloon: Nicolai Westrobothnian: Nings m, Nitkj m Yakut: Ньукулай (Ńukulay)

Anagrams

• halocins, lichanos

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• Nicolas, Nicholaus

Etymology

From Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnikɔlas/, /ˈnikɔlau̯s/

Proper noun

Nicholas

1. a male given name associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra.

Descendants

• English: Nicholas
• Scots: Nicholas

References

• “Nicholas, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-30.