different between nymphae vs nymphaea

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?mfi?/

Noun

nymphae

1. plural of nympha

Anagrams

• hype man, hypeman

Latin

Noun

nymphae

1. dative singular of nymph?
2. nominative plural of nymph?
3. vocative plural of nymph?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?m?fi??/

Etymology 1

From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (numphaîa), feminine singular form of ???????? (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from ????? (númph?, “nymph”).

Noun

nymphaea (plural nymphaeas)

1. (botany) Originally, the European white water lily; later also, a species of the genus Nymphaea.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Noun

nymphaea

1. plural of nymphaeum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (numphaía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nym?p?ae?.a/, [n?m?p?äe?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nim?fe.a/, [nim?f???]

Noun

nymphaea f (genitive nymphaeae); first declension

1. water lily

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• nympha

Descendants

• Translingual: Nymphaea

References

• 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