See also: Nicæa

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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.

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Nicaea

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

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From Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia).

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Nīcaea f sg (genitive Nīcaeae); first declension

  1. Nicaea, Hellenic city in northwestern Anatolia
  2. Nice, France
  3. Nikaia, Greece
  4. Nisa, Portugal

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Nīcaea
Genitive Nīcaeae
Dative Nīcaeae
Accusative Nīcaeam
Ablative Nīcaeā
Vocative Nīcaea
Locative Nīcaeae

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  • 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