Nice

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See also: nice, NICE, -nice, and niče

English

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Nice

Etymology

From French Nice, from Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), named for a 4th-century BC victory of its colonizing Phocaean Greeks over local Ligurians, probably the Vediantii, from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia, “-ia: forming place names”). Doublet of Iznik and Nicaea.

Pronunciation

enPR: nēs, IPA^(key): /niːs/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːs
Homophone: niece

Proper noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Nice (city)

Nice

A coastal city, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France.
A surname. (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
A census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States.

Derived terms

Nice model

Translations

city in France

Anagrams

Ince, Niec, cien, cine, cine-, icen

French

Etymology

From the Roman name, Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nis/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Nice f

Nice (a coastal city, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)

Derived terms

Niçois, niçois

Anagrams

ciné

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈni.si/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈni.se/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sɨ/

Rhymes: -isi
Hyphenation: Ni‧ce

Etymology 1

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Nice (mitologia)

Learned borrowing from Latin Nice, from Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē).

Proper noun

Nice f

(Greek mythology) Nike (goddess of victory)

Etymology 2

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Nice

Borrowed from French Nice, from Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia). Doublet of Niceia.

Proper noun

Nice

Nice (a coastal city, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France)

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Nice f

a diminutive of the female given name Cleonice

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