"Nice" meaning in French

See Nice in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /nis/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Nice.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Nice.wav [France, Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Nice.wav [France, Vosges]
Etymology: From Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”). Doublet of Nicée. Etymology templates: {{ety|fr|:der|la:Nīcaea}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "victory", "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "νῑ́κη", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "grc" }, { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "feminine suffix", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-is", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro", "pos" : "i-stem suffix" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro", "pos" : "neuter plural suffix" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-ih₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ῐᾰ", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "Νῑ́καια", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "Nīcaea", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "Nice", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="Nice">, {{der|fr|la|Nīcaea}} Latin Nīcaea, {{der|fr|grc|Νίκαια}} Ancient Greek Νίκαια (Níkaia), {{doublet|fr|Nicée}} Doublet of Nicée Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|f}} Nice f
  1. Nice (a coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Cities in Alpes-Maritimes, France, Cities in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Places in Alpes-Maritimes, France, Places in France, Places in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Synonyms: Nicée Derived forms: nicéité, niçois, Niçois, Niçoise Related terms: Nicée, nicéen, Nicéen, Nicéenne
    Sense id: en-Nice-fr-name-7d3HlPRF Categories (other): French entries with etymon, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon, Departmental capitals of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Nice, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 13 5 29 35 3 12 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 4 34 35 2 10 4
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.