Nicaea

See also: Nicæa

English

Alternative forms

• Nikaia; Nicæa (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), for Nicaea wife of Lysimachus, from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + -ια (-ia, “-ia: forming feminine names”). Doublet of Iznik and Nice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈsiːə/

Proper noun

Nicaea

1. (historical) Former name of Iznik, a city in Turkey famed for the AD 325 church council that composed the Nicene Creed.

Synonyms

• (ancient Iznik): Antiogonia, Ancore, Helicore (historical)

Related terms

• Nicene
• Nicene Creed

 

Translations

ancient Iznik — see also Iznik

• Arabic: نِيقِيَّة f (nīqiyya)
• 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:

  Ancient: Νίκαια f (Níkaia), Ἀγκόρη (Ankórē), Ἑλικόρη (Helikórē), Ἀντιγονεία (Antigoneía)

  Modern: Νίκαια (el) f (Níkaia)

• Icelandic: Níkea f
• Italian: Nicea f
• Japanese: ニカイア (Nikaia)
• Korean: 니케아 (Nikea)
• Latin: Nīcaea f, Antigonia f
• Persian: نیقیه (niqiye)
• Portuguese: Niceia f
• Russian: Нике́я (ru) f (Nikéja)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /niːˈkae̯.a/, [niːˈkäe̯ä]
• (modern Italianate 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.

	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.