nymphaeum

• nymphæum (archaic)

Learned borrowing from Latin nymphaeum, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖον (numphaîon), a substantivisation of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).

nymphaeum (plural nymphaeums or nymphaea)

1. (Ancient Greece and Rome) A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.

• nymphēum, nymfēum, nymfīum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῠμφαῖον (nŭmphaîon).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nymˈpʰae̯.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [nimˈfɛː.um]

nymphaeum n (genitive nymphaeī); second declension

1. (religion) nymphaeum (an ancient Greek or Roman shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “nymphaeum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nymphaeum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung