nymphaea

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /nɪmˈfiːə/ === Etymology 1 === From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖα (numphaîa), feminine singular form of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from translingual Nymphaea, from the same Latin and Greek. ==== Noun ==== nymphaea (plural nymphaeas) (botany, originally), the European white water lily. (taxonomy) Any species of the genus Nymphaea. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Inflected forms. ==== Noun ==== nymphaea plural of nymphaeum == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nymˈpʰae̯.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [nimˈfɛː.a] === Etymology 1 === From Ancient Greek νῠμφαία (nŭmphaía). ==== Noun ==== nymphaea f (genitive nymphaeae); first declension water lily ===== Declension ===== First-declension noun. ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Translingual: Nymphaea === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== nymphaea nominative/accusative/vocative plural of nymphaeum === References === “nymphaea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nymphaea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “nymphaea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly