Nausicaa

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See also: Nausícaa, Nausicäa, and Nausicaä

English

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Etymology

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From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

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Nausicaa

  1. (Greek mythology) A princess who aids Odysseus.
    • 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:
      But no catastrophe occurred. I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.
  2. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Nausicaa.

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Nausicaa f

  1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa

Italian

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

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Nausicaa f

  1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa
  2. a female given name

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάᾱ (Nausikáā).

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Nausicaa f sg (genitive Nausicaae); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Nausicaa (daughter of Phaeacian king Alcinous)
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 12.31:
      Sī mihi Nausicaā patriōs concēderet hortōs, / Alcinoō possem dīcere 'mālo meōs.'
      • 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
        If Nausicaa were to offer me her father's gardens, I could say to Alcinous: 'I prefer my own.'

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Nausicaa
Nausicaā
Genitive Nausicaae
Dative Nausicaae
Accusative Nausicaam
Nausicaān
Ablative Nausicaā
Vocative Nausicaa
Nausicaā

References

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  • Nausicaa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Nausicaa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Nausicaa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Proper noun

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Nausicaa f

  1. Alternative spelling of Nausícaa