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English
Etymology
From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nausicaa
- (Greek mythology) A princess who aids Odysseus.
1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:But no catastrophe occurred. I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.
- (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Nausicaa.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nausicaa f
- (Greek mythology) Nausicaa
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).
Proper noun
Nausicaa f
- (Greek mythology) Nausicaa
- a female given name
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάᾱ (Nausikáā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nausicaa f sg (genitive Nausicaae); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Nausicaa (daughter of Phaeacian king Alcinous)
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata 12.31:
- Sī mihi Nausicaā patriōs concēderet hortōs, / Alcinoō possem dīcere 'mālo meōs.'
- 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- If Nausicaa were to offer me her father's gardens, I could say to Alcinous: 'I prefer my own.'
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Nausicaa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Nausicaa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Nausicaa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Portuguese
Proper noun
Nausicaa f
- Alternative spelling of Nausícaa