candace
/ˈkæn.dɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
Example Sentences
- "He aroſe and went on / and beholde a man off ethiopia which was gelded / and of grete auctoꝛite with Candace qune of the ethiopians / which had the rule off all her treaſure / cam to Ieruſalem foꝛ to pꝛaye."
- "Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama."
- "Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]"
- "Shanakdekhete's namesake was a candace of the 160s B.C.E. who appears to have been the first sole female ruler of Meroe; her name appears on the Meroitic hieroglyphs at Naga, among the earliest examples of Meroitic known."
Etymology
From Latin Candacē, from Ancient Greek Κανδάκη (Kandákē), from Meroitic 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 (kdke /kandakə/), a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (northern Sudan).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Candacē, Κανδάκη, 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡