Nicene

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 204 words | Copyright

Nicene pert. to (councils of the Church held at) Nicaea (Gr. Nīkaia) in Bithynia, esp. of the creed adopted at the first of these (A. D. 325). XV. — late L. Nīcēnus, Nicænus.

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