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Nice
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Appendix:Variations of "nice"
English
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Etymology
en fr Nice, from en la Nīcaea, from en grc Νῑ́καια, from grc νῑ́κη<t:victory> -ῐᾰ<t:-ia><pos:suffix forming place names>. It was named for a 4th-century- victory of its colonizing Phocaean Greeks over local Ligurians, probably the Vediantii.
en Iznik Nicaea.
Pronunciation
nēs
en /niːs/ RP
en /nis/ GA,CA
en en-us-niece.ogg California
en /niːs/ AU
en /niːs/ NZ
en iːs 1
en niece
Proper noun
+ (city)
en Q33959en coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France.
en Nicaea<id:Q33959><q:history>
en Joseph Ataman, Pierre Bairin, Philippe Cordier French streamer dies live online during extreme challenge w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/europe/french-streamer-dies-live-online-abuse-latam-intl 2025-08-20 The Nice prosecutor’s office told CNN that an investigation has been opened into his death and an autopsy ordered. So far, authorities have not announced any charges related to Pormanove’s death. https://web.archive.org/web/20260213045619/https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/europe/french-streamer-dies-live-online-abuse-latam-intl 13 February 2026
en. (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
en CDP co/Lake County s/California c/US.
Derived terms
en Nice model
Related terms
en Nicaea Nicaean
Translations
city in France
Albanian: sq Nice f
Arabic: ar نِيس f
Armenian: hy Նիցցա, hy Նիս
Azerbaijani: az Nitsa
Belarusian: be Ні́ца f
Bengali: bn নিস
Bulgarian: bg Ни́ца f
Catalan: ca Niça f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 尼斯 Nísī
Corsican: co Nizza f
Czech: cs Nice f
Danish: da Nice
Dutch: nl Nice n
Esperanto: eo Nico
Estonian: et Nice
Farefare: gur Nis, gur Nika
Finnish: fi Nizza
French: fr Nice f
Galician: gl Niza
Georgian: ka ნიცა
German: de Nizza n
Greek: el Νίκαια f
Ancient Greek: grc Νίκαια f
Pontic Greek: pnt Νις
Hebrew: he ניס nis f
Hindi: hi नीस ?
Hungarian: hu Nizza
Icelandic: is Nice
Indonesian: id Nice
Italian: it Nizza f
Japanese: ja ニース Nīsu
Kazakh: kk Ницца
Korean: ko ^니스
Kyrgyz: ky Ницца
Latin: la Nīcaea f
Latvian: lv Nica f
Ligurian: lij Nissa
Lithuanian: lt Nica f
Macedonian: mk Ница f
Marathi: mr नीस
Mongolian: mn Ницца
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Nice
Occitan: oc Niça f, oc Nissa f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira نیس
Polish: pl Nicea f
Portuguese: pt Nice f
Romanian: ro Nisa f
Russian: ru Ни́цца f
Sardinian: sc Nitza f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ница f
Latin: sh Nica f
Sicilian: scn Nizza f
Slovak: sk Nice f
Slovene: sl Nica f
Spanish: es Niza f
Swedish: sv Nice
Tajik: tg Нитса
Thai: th นิส
Turkish: tr Nice
Ottoman Turkish: ota نیس nis
Ukrainian: uk Ні́цца f
Urdu: ur نیس nīs
Yiddish: yi ניס
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Nice is the 9090th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3595 individuals. Nice is most common among White (93.63%) individuals.
Anagrams
en cein Ince Niec cien cine cine- icen
French
Etymology
fr :der la:Nīcaea
From fr la Nīcaea, from fr grc Νίκαια, from grc νίκη victory. fr Nicée.
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Nice.wav
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Nice.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Nice.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-Nice.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr is 1
Proper noun
f
fr Nice Q33959
fr Nicée<id:Q33959><q:history>
Derived terms
fr nicéité niçois Niçois,Niçoise
Related terms
fr Nicée nicéen Nicéen,Nicéenne
Descendants
1 ar نِيس
1 zh 尼斯
1 en Nice
1 hi नीस
1 fa-ira نیس
1 ja ニース<tr:Nīsu>
1 ko ^니스
1 ota نیس<tr:nis>
1 th นิส
Anagrams
fr ciné
Portuguese
Pronunciation
pt isi 2
pt Ni ce
Etymology 1
pt:+ (mitologia)
pt la Nice, from pt grc Νίκη. pt Nike.
Proper noun
f
pt Greek god Nike goddess of victory
Etymology 2
pt:
pt fr Nice, from pt la Nīcaea, from pt grc Νῑ́καια. pt Niceia.
Proper noun
pt coastal city/capital dept/Alpes-Maritimes in the r:suf/Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeast c/France Nice
Etymology 3
Proper noun
f
pt female Cleonice