Nicaea

• Nicea, Nikaia
• Nicæa (archaic)

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.

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈsiːə/

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Nicaea

1. (historical) Former name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed.

• (ancient Iznik): Antiogonia, Ancore, Helicore (historical)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [niːˈkae̯.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [niˈt͡ʃɛː.a]

Nīcaea f sg (genitive Nīcaeae); first declension

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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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.