English

Alternative forms

• Nicæa (archaic)

Proper noun

Nicaea

1. (historical) An ancient city in Bithynia in Asia Minor, important during Roman and Byzantine times, on the site of modern-day İznik, Turkey, to which it gave its name. Famous as the site of first council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which composed the Nicene Creed.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νίκαια ‎(Níkaia).

Proper noun

Nīcaea f ‎(genitive Nīcaeae); first declension

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

Declension

First declension, with locative.

References

• Nicaea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Nicaea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.