Nicholas

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɪk.ə.ləs/, /ˈnɪk.ləs/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪkələs, -ɪkləs
  • Homophone: knickerless (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English Nicholas, from Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) +‎ λαός (laós, “people”).

Proper noun

Nicholas (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholas or Nicholases)

  1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, particularly (historical) St Nicholas.
    • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
    • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, page 182:
      I must call you Nick—we always did call you young Nick when we knew you meant to marry the old widow. Some said you had a handsome family likeness to old Nick, but that was your mother's fault, calling you Nicholas. Aren't you glad to see me again?
    • 2022 May 12, Dave Davies, “Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?”, in National Public Radio‎[1], spoken by Dave Davies, Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, archived from the original on 28 June 2023:
      Our guest, New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore, recently wrote a series of articles about Carlson drawing on an analysis of more than 1,100 episodes of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," conducted by Confessore and a team of Times reporters as well as interviews with dozens of current and former Fox executives, producers and journalists.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
  4. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
Derived terms
male given names
pet forms
female given names
surnames
Translations

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nicholas

  1. plural of Nichola

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnikɔlas/, /ˈnikɔlau̯s/

Proper noun

Nicholas

  1. a male given name associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra.

Descendants

  • English: Nicholas
  • Scots: Nicholas
  • Yola: Niclase

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

Proper noun

Nicholas

  1. a male given name

Descendants

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