# νίκη
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* νίκα (níka) — Doric

### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neyk- (“to attack, run at”) and cognate with νεῖκος (neîkos, “quarrel, strife”), Lithuanian ap-nìkti (“to attack”); however, Beekes is semantically unconvinced, and prefers to take the word as Pre-Greek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nǐː.kɛː/ → /ˈni.ci/ → /ˈni.ci/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /nǐː.kɛː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈni.ke̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈni.ci/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈni.ci/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈni.ci/

### Noun

νῑ́κη • (nī́kē) f (genitive νῑ́κης); first declension
* the act of winning: victory, success [with genitive ‘over, in something’]
** things won in victory, fruits of victory
** the upper hand, advantage

#### Derived terms

* ἀνίκητος (aníkētos)
* Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloníkē)
* νῑκαῖος (nīkaîos)
* νῑκάω (nīkáō)
* νῑκήεις (nīkḗeis)
* νῑκηφορέω (nīkēphoréō)
* νῑκηφορία (nīkēphoría)
* νῑκηφόρος (nīkēphóros)
* Νικόπολις (Nikópolis)
* Ἀγλαονίκη (Aglaoníkē)
* Ἀνδρόνικος (Andrónikos)
* Βερενίκη (Bereníkē)
* Δημονίκη (Dēmoníkē)
* Ἐτεόνικος (Eteónikos)
* Εὐνίκη (Euníkē)
* Νίκανδρος (Níkandros)
* Νίκη (Níkē)
* Νικήρατος (Nikḗratos)
* Νικίππη (Nikíppē)
* Νικόδημος (Nikódēmos)
* Νικοκλῆς (Nikoklês)
* Νικόλαος (Nikólaos)
* Νικόλας (Nikólas)
* Νικολέτα (Nikoléta)
* Νικολέττα (Nikolétta)
* Νικολής (Nikolḗs)
* Νικόμαχος (Nikómakhos)
* Νικομήδης (Nikomḗdēs)
* Νίκος (Níkos)
* Νικόστρατος (Nikóstratos)
* Στρᾰτονῑ́κη (Strătonī́kē)
* Φερενίκη (Phereníkē)

#### Descendants

* Nicholas
* Nick
* Nicola
* Nicolaos
* Nicolas
* Nicos
* Nike
* Niki
* Nikola
* Nikolaos
* Nikolas
* Nikoleta
* Nikolis
* Nikos

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νῑ́κη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1021-2

### Further reading

* “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “νίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “νίκη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* νίκη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G3529 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. conquest idem, page 161.mastery idem, page 517.superiority idem, page 839.triumph idem, page 896.victory idem, page 951.
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* “νίκη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Noun

νίκη • (níki) f (plural νίκες)
* victory

#### Derived terms

* νικώ (nikó, “to defeat”)
* νικητής m (nikitís, “winner, victor”)
* νικήτρια f (nikítria, “winner, victor”)
* νικηφόρος (nikifóros, “victorious”)
* νικητήριος (nikitírios, “winning”)