Nausicaa

See also: Nausícaa, Nausicäa, and Nausicaä

English

Alternative forms

• Nausicäa, Nausicaä

Etymology

From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɔːˈsɪkiə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɔːˈsɪkɪə/
• conservatively IPA^(key): /nɔːˈsɪkeɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkiə, -ɪkɪə, -ɪkeɪə

Proper noun

Nausicaa

1. (Greek mythology) A princess who aids Odysseus.
   • 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:

     But no catastrophe occurred. I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.

2. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek

Translations

princess in the Odyssey

• Catalan: Nausica (ca) f
• French: Nausicaa (fr) f
• German: Nausikaa f
• Greek: Ναυσικά (el) f (Nafsiká)

  Ancient: Ναυσικάα f (Nausikáa)

• Italian: Nausicaa f
• Japanese: ナウシカアー (Naushikaā)
• Korean: 나우시카 (Nausika)
• Latin: Nausicaa f
• Portuguese: Nausícaa f
• Spanish: Nausícaa f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Nausicaa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.zi.ka.a/

Proper noun

Nausicaa f

1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

Proper noun

Nausicaa f

1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa
2. a female given name

Latin

Alternative forms

• Nausicaē, Nausicaä

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάᾱ (Nausikáā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nau̯ˈsi.ka.a/, [näu̯ˈs̠ɪkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nau̯ˈsi.ka.a/, [näu̯ˈsiːkäː]

Proper noun

Nausicaa f sg (genitive Nausicaae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa (daughter of Phaeacian king Alcinous)
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 12.31:

     Sī mihi Nausicaā patriōs concēderet hortōs, / Alcinoō possem dīcere 'mālo meōs.'

     • 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey

       If Nausicaa were to offer me her father's gardens, I could say to Alcinous: 'I prefer my own.'

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nausicaa Nausicaā
Genitive	Nausicaae
Dative	Nausicaae
Accusative	Nausicaam Nausicaān
Ablative	Nausicaā
Vocative	Nausicaa Nausicaā

References

• “Nausicaa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nausicaa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Nausicaa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Proper noun

Nausicaa f

1. Alternative spelling of Nausícaa