Nice

See also: nice, NICE, -nice, and niče

English

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Nice

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: nēs, IPA^(key): /niːs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːs
• Homophone: niece

Proper noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Nice (city)

Wikipedia

Nice

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

Derived terms

• Nice model

Translations

city in France

Albanian: Nice f Arabic: نِيس f (nīs) Armenian: Նիցցա (Nicʻcʻa), Նիս (Nis) Azerbaijani: Nitsa Belarusian: Ні́ца f (Níca) Bengali: নিস (niś) Bulgarian: Ни́ца f (Níca) Catalan: Niça (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 尼斯 (zh) (Nísī) Corsican: Nizza f Czech: Nice (cs) f Danish: Nice (da) Dutch: Nice n Esperanto: Nico Estonian: Nice (et) Farefare: Nis, Nika Finnish: Nizza (fi) French: Nice (fr) f Galician: Niza Georgian: ნიცა (nica) German: Nizza (de) n Greek: Νίκαια (el) f (Níkaia) Ancient: Νίκαια f (Níkaia) Hebrew: ניס f (nis) Hindi: नीस (hi) ? (nīs) Hungarian: Nizza (hu) Icelandic: Nice Indonesian: Nice (id) Italian: Nizza f Japanese: ニース (Nīsu) Kazakh: Ницца (Nissa) Korean: 니스 (Niseu) Kyrgyz: Ницца (Nitstsa) Latin: Nīcaea f Latvian: Nica f Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: Nica f Macedonian: Ница f (Nica) Marathi: नीस (nīs) Mongolian: Ницца (Nicca) Norwegian: Bokmål: Nice Occitan: Niça (oc) f, Nissa (oc) f Persian: نیس (nis) Polish: Nicea (pl) f Pontic Greek: Νις (Nis) Portuguese: Nice (pt) f Romanian: Nisa (ro) f Russian: Ни́цца (ru) f (Nícca) Sardinian: Nitza f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ница f Roman: Nica (sh) f Sicilian: Nizza f Slovak: Nice f Slovene: Nica f Spanish: Niza (es) f Swedish: Nice (sv) Tajik: Нитса (Nitsa) Thai: นิส (nís) Turkish: Nice (tr) Ukrainian: Ні́цца f (Nícca) Urdu: نیس (nīs) Yiddish: ניס (nis)

Anagrams

• Ince, Niec, cien, cine, cine-, icen

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nis/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Proper noun

Nice f

1. Nice (a coastal city, the capital of 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/

• (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)

Wikipedia ^pt

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

Proper noun

Nice f

1. (Greek mythology) Nike (goddess of victory)

Etymology 2

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Nice

Wikipedia ^pt

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

Proper noun

Nice ?

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

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Nice f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Cleonice