Νικόλαος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + λᾱός (lāós, “people”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /niː.kó.laː.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /niˈko.la.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /niˈko.la.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /niˈko.la.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /niˈko.la.os/
Proper noun
Νῑκόλᾱος • (Nīkólāos) m (genitive Νῑκολᾱ́ου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
- One of the seven chosen in Acts 6 and of St. Nicholas.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Νῑκόλᾱος ho Nīkólāos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Νῑκολᾱ́ου toû Nīkolā́ou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Νῑκολᾱ́ῳ tôi Nīkolā́ōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Νῑκόλᾱον tòn Nīkólāon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νῑκόλᾱε Nīkólāe | ||||||||||||
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| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Νῑκόλως / Νῑκόλεως ho Nīkól(e)ōs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Νῑκόλω / Νῑκόλεω toû Nīkól(e)ō | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Νῑκόλῳ / Νῑκόλεῳ tôi Nīkól(e)ōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Νῑκόλω / Νῑκόλεων tòn Nīkól(e)ō(n) | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νῑκόλως / Νῑκόλεως Nīkól(e)ōs | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Νῑκολᾱΐδης (Nīkolāḯdēs)
- Νῑκολᾱΐς (Nīkolāḯs)
Descendants
- Greek: Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), Νικόλας (Nikólas)
- → Albanian: Nikolla, Koll
- → Armenian: Նիկողայոս (Nikoġayos)
- → Coptic: ⲛⲓⲕⲟⲗⲁⲟⲥ (nikolaos)
- → Georgian: ნიკოლოზი (niḳolozi)
- → Finnish: Nikolaos
- → Hebrew: ניקולאס
- → Japanese: ニコラオス (Nikoraosu)
- → Korean: 니콜라우스 (Nikollauseu)
- → Old Church Slavonic: Николаи (Nikolai)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Nìkola / Нѝкола
- → Turkish: Nikola
- → Latin: Nīcolāus
- Catalan: Nicolau
- Old French: Nicholas
- Italian: Nicola, Niccolò
- Portuguese: Nicolau
- Romanian: Nicoară
- Spanish: Nicolás
- Venetan: Nicoła
- → Czech: Mikuláš
- → Danish: Nikolaus
- → Faroese: Niklas
- → Finnish: Nikolaus
- → West Frisian: Niklaas
- → German: Nikolaus, Klaus
- → Hungarian: Miklós
- → Icelandic: Nikulás
- → Latvian: Nikolajs, Nikolass, Niklāvs, Niks, Klāvs
- → Lithuanian: Nikolas, Mikalojus
- → Limburgish: Nicolaas
- → Luxembourgish: Niklos
- → Norwegian: Nikolaus, Nikolas
- → Polish: Mikołaj
- → Slovak: Mikuláš
- → Swedish: Nikolaus, Niklas, Nils
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3532 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
Greek
Proper noun
Νικόλαος • (Nikólaos) m
- a male given name, Nikolaos, equivalent to English Nicholas
Declension
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) |
| genitive | Νικολάου (Nikoláou) |
| accusative | Νικόλαο (Nikólao) |
| vocative | Νικόλαε (Nikólae) |