Nice

See also: nice, NICE, -nice, and niče

English

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):

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• Rhymes: -iːs
• Homophone: niece

Proper noun

Nice

1. A coastal city, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France.
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 m (nīs)
• Armenian: Նիցցա (Nicʻcʻa), Նիս (Nis)
• Azerbaijani: Nitsa
• Belarusian: Ні́ца f (Níca)
• Bengali: নিস (niś)
• Bulgarian: Ни́ца f (Níca)
• Catalan: Niça 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 (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
• 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nis/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Nice f

1. 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/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈni.sɨ/

• Rhymes: -isi
• Hyphenation: Ni‧ce

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Nice f

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

Etymology 2

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 the 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