Candace

See also: candace

English

Alternative forms

• Candice

Etymology

From Latin Candacē, from Ancient Greek Κανδάκη (Kandákē), from Meroitic 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 (kdke /⁠kandakə⁠/), a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (Northern Sudan).

Pronunciation

• (female given name) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.dɪs/

Proper noun

Candace (plural Candaces)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts viij:[27–28], folio clxv, verso:

     He aroſe and went on / and beholde a man off ethiopia which was gelded / and of grete auctoꝛite with Candace qune of the ethiopians / which had the rule off all her treaſure / cam to Ieruſalem foꝛ to pꝛaye.

Noun

Candace (plural Candaces)

1. Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
   • 2012, Hassan B. Abdelwahab, Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy, →ISBN:

     Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]

Translations

female given name

• Latin: Candace
• Polish: Kandake (pl)