nymphaeum

See also: nymphæum

English

Alternative forms

• nymphæum (archaic)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nymphaeum, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖον (numphaîon), a substantivisation of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).

Noun

nymphaeum (plural nymphaeums or nymphaea)

1. (Ancient Greece and Rome) A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: nymfaion
• French: nymphée (fr) m
• Greek: νυμφαίο (el) n (nymfaío)

  Ancient Greek: νυμφαῖον n (numphaîon)

• Hungarian: nümphaion, nimfeum
• Italian: ninfeo (it) m
• Japanese: ニンファエウム (ninfaeumu)
• Latin: nymphaeum n, nymphēum n
• Polish: nimfeum (pl) n
• Portuguese: ninfeu (pt) m
• Slovak: nymfeum n
• Spanish: ninfeo (es) m

Latin

Alternative forms

• nymphēum, nymfēum, nymfīum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῠμφαῖον (nŭmphaîon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nymˈpʰae̯.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [nimˈfɛː.um]

Noun

nymphaeum n (genitive nymphaeī); second declension

1. (religion) nymphaeum (an ancient Greek or Roman shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	nymphaeum	nymphaea
genitive	nymphaeī	nymphaeōrum
dative	nymphaeō	nymphaeīs
accusative	nymphaeum	nymphaea
ablative	nymphaeō	nymphaeīs
vocative	nymphaeum	nymphaea

Further reading

• “nymphaeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nymphaeum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung