nymphaea

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɪmˈfiːə/

From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖα (numphaîa), feminine singular form of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).

nymphaea (plural nymphaeas)

1. (botany) Originally, the European white water lily; later also, a species of the genus Nymphaea.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

     Guianerius, cap. 8, tract. 15, would have them used twice a day, and when they come forth of the baths, their backbones to be anointed with oil of almonds, violets, nymphæa, fresh capon-grease, etc.

Inflected forms.

nymphaea

1. plural of nymphaeum

From Ancient Greek νυμφαία (numphaía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nymˈpʰae̯.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nimˈfe.a/,

nymphaea f (genitive nymphaeae); first declension

1. water lily

First-declension noun.

• nympha

• Translingual: Nymphaea

• “nymphaea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nymphaea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nymphaea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly