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nymphae

nymphae is a Latin form of nymphe, meaning “nymph; bride”.

It can also be a form of nympha, “nymph; bride”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 90 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.43: … rationibus Stoicorum. Si enim vos sequar, dic quid ei respondeam qui me sic roget: Si di sunt , suntne etiam Nymphae deae? si Nymphae, Panisci etiam et Satyri; hi autem non sunt; ne Nymphae deae quidem igitur. at earum templa …

Vergil, Eclogues 5.20: Extinctum nymphae crudeli funere Daphnim

All forms of nymphe (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.