Νικόλαος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) +‎ λᾱός (lāós, “people”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /niː.kó.laː.os/ → /niˈko.la.os/ → /niˈko.la.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /niː.kó.laː.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /niˈko.la.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈko.la.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈko.la.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈko.la.os/

Proper noun

Νῑκόλᾱος • (Nīkólāos) m (genitive Νῑκολᾱ́ου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
2. One of the seven chosen in Acts 6 and of St. Nicholas.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Νῑκόλᾱος; τοῦ Νῑκολᾱ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Νῑκόλᾱος ho Nīkólāos
Genitive	τοῦ Νῑκολᾱ́ου toû Nīkolā́ou
Dative	τῷ Νῑκολᾱ́ῳ tôi Nīkolā́ōi
Accusative	τὸν Νῑκόλᾱον tòn Nīkólāon
Vocative	Νῑκόλᾱε Nīkólāe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Νῑκολᾱΐδης (Nīkolāḯdēs)
• Νῑκολᾱΐς (Nīkolāḯs)

Descendants

• Akkadian: 𒉌𒅅𒄖𒆷𒇻𒋢 (ni-ik-ku-la-lu-su)
• Albanian: Nikolla, Koll
• Armenian: Նիկողայոս (Nikoġayos)
• Bulgarian: Николай (Nikolaj)
• Catalan: Nicolau
• Coptic: ⲛⲓⲕⲟⲗⲁⲟⲥ (nikolaos)
• Czech: Mikuláš
• Danish: Nikolaus
• Dutch: Nicolaas
• English: Nicholas
• Faroese: Niklas
• Finnish: Nikolaus, Nikolaos
• French: Nicolas
• West Frisian: Niklaas
• German: Nikolaus
• Greek: Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), Νικόλας (Nikólas)
• Hebrew: ניקולאס
• Hungarian: Miklós
• Icelandic: Nikulás
• Italian: Nicola, Niccolò
• Japanese: ニコラオス (Nikoraosu)
• Korean: 니콜라우스 (Nikollauseu)
• Latin: Nicolaus
• Lithuanian: Nikolas, Mikalojus
• Limburgish: Nicolaas
• Luxembourgish: Niklos
• Norman: Nic'lesse
• Norwegian: Nikolaus, Nikolas
• Polish: Mikołaj
• Portuguese: Nicolau
• Romanian: Nicolae
• Russian: Николай (Nikolaj)
• Serbo-Croatian: Nìkola / Нѝкола
• Slovak: Mikuláš
• Spanish: Nicolás
• Swedish: Nikolaus, Niklas, Nils
• Turkish: Nikola
• Ukrainian: Микола (Mykola), Миколай (Mykolaj)
• Venetan: Nicoła

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3532 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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Greek

Proper noun

Νικόλαος • (Nikólaos) m (plural Nikólaos)

1. Nicholas (male given name)

Declension

  Νικόλαος

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Νικόλαος •
genitive	Νικολάου •
accusative	Νικόλαο •
vocative	Νικόλαε •

Derived terms

• Νικόλας (Nikólas)
• Νικολοβάρβαρα (Nikolovárvara)
• Νικολός (Nikolós)
• Νικολάκης (Nikolákis)
• Νίκος (Níkos)
• Κολίνος (Kolínos)