Nicaea

See also: Nicæa

English

Alternative forms

• Nicæa (archaic)

Etymology

Via Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”). Doublet of İznik and Nice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈsiːə/

Proper noun

Nicaea

1. (historical) An ancient city in Bithynia in Asia Minor, important during Roman and Byzantine times, on the site of modern-day İznik, Turkey, to which it gave its name. Famous as the site of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which composed the Nicene Creed.

Translations

ancient city

• Ancient Greek: Νίκαια f (Níkaia)
• 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: Νίκαια (el) f (Níkaia)
• Icelandic: Níkea f
• Italian: Nicea f
• Korean: 니케아 (Nikea)
• Latin: Nīcaea f
• Persian: نیقیه‎ (niqiye)
• Portuguese: Niceia f
• Russian: Нике́я (ru) f (Nikéja)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia).

Pronunciation

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

Case	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