Nicaea

== English == === Alternative forms === Nicea, Nikaia Nicæa (archaic) === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /naɪˈsiːə/ === Proper noun === Nicaea (historical) Former name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed. ==== Synonyms ==== (ancient Iznik): Antiogonia, Ancore, Helicore (historical) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [niːˈkae̯.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [niˈt͡ʃɛː.a] === Proper noun === Nīcaea f sg (genitive Nīcaeae); first declension Nicaea, Hellenic city in northwestern Anatolia Nice, France Nikaia, Greece Nisa, Portugal ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. === 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.