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nymphaeum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables
nymphaeum
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: νυμφαῖον

Inflected Forms

nymphaeums (plural) nymphaea (plural) nymphæum (alternative, archaic)

Questions

What does nymphaeum mean?
A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.
Where does nymphaeum come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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