Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /níki/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /níci/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /níci/

Proper noun

Νῑ́κη • ‎(Nī́kē) f ‎(genitive Νίκης); first declension

1. Nike

Inflection

Descendants

• English: Nike
• Greek: Νίκη ‎(Níki)
• Turkish: Nike

References

• «Νίκη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • victory idem, page 951.
  • Victory idem, page 1029.

Greek

Proper noun

Νίκη • ‎(Níki) f

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

Declension

Ancient Greek

Noun

νῑ́κη • ‎(nī́kē) f ‎(genitive νῑ́κης); first declension

1. the act of winning: victory, success [+genitive = over, in something]
   1. things won in victory, fruits of victory
   2. the upper hand, advantage

Inflection

Derived terms

• νῑκάω ‎(nīkáō)
• νῑκήεις ‎(nīkḗeis)
• νῑκαῖος ‎(nīkaîos)
• νῑκηφορέω ‎(nīkēphoréō)
• νῑκηφορία ‎(nīkēphoría)
• νῑκηφόρος ‎(nīkēphóros)
• Θεσσαλονίκη ‎(Thessaloníkē)

First names derived from νίκη:

• Νικόλαος ‎(Nikólaos), Νίκος ‎(Níkos), Νικόλας ‎(Nikólas), Νικολής ‎(Nikolḗs)
• Νίκη ‎(Níkē)
• Νικολέτα ‎(Nikoléta), Νικολέττα ‎(Nikolétta)

Descendants

• Nikolaos
• Niki
• Nikoleta
• Nikos
• Nikolas
• Nikolis
• Nick
• Nicos
• Nicolas
• Nicolaos
• Nicholas

References

• νίκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• νίκη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νίκη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «νίκη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3529”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conquest idem, page 161.
  • mastery idem, page 516.
  • superiority idem, page 839.
  • triumph idem, page 896.
  • victory idem, page 951.
  • Victory idem, page 1029.
• Bauer lexicon
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Noun

νίκη • ‎(níki) f ‎(plural νίκες)

1. victory

Declension

Derived terms

• νικώ ‎(nikó, “to defeat”)
• νικητής m ‎(nikitís, “winner, victor”)
• νικήτρια f ‎(nikítria, “winner, victor”)
• νικηφόρος ‎(nikifóros, “victorious”)
• νικητήριος ‎(nikitírios, “winning”)