nymphaeum

== 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) (Ancient Greece and Rome) A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain. ==== Translations ==== == 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 (religion) nymphaeum (an ancient Greek or Roman shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === 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