English Explanatory Dictionary

nymphaeum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.

Word forms

nymphaeum nymphaeums nymphaea nymphæum

Etymology

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

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