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Nicholas (disambiguation)

Alternative forms

Nicolas
Nickolas, Nikolas (usually of non-English origin)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nicholas (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholases)Category:English lemmas#NICHOLAS Category:English proper nouns#NICHOLAS Category:English uncountable nouns#NICHOLAS Category:English countable nouns#NICHOLAS Category:English countable nouns#NICHOLAS Category:English entries with incorrect language header#NICHOLAS Category:Pages with entries#NICHOLAS Category:Pages with 3 entries#NICHOLAS

A male given name from Ancient Greek, notably born by St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is basedCategory:English given names#NICHOLASCategory:English male given names#NICHOLASCategory:English male given names from Ancient Greek#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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#NICHOLAS
- 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?
  Category:English terms with quotations#NICHOLAS
- 2022 May 12, Dave Davies, “Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?”, in NPR‎, spoken by Dave Davies, 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#NICHOLAS
A surname originating as a patronymicCategory:English surnames#NICHOLAS Category:English surnames from patronymics#NICHOLAS.
An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United StatesCategory:en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA#NICHOLAS Category:en:Places in Virginia, USA#NICHOLAS Category:en:Places in the United States#NICHOLAS.
A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin IslandsCategory:en:Villages in the United States Virgin Islands#NICHOLAS Category:en:Places in the United States Virgin Islands#NICHOLAS.

Derived terms

Related terms

Santa Claus

male given names

pet forms

female given names

Translations

male given name

Category:Entries with translation boxes#NICHOLAS

Albanian: NikollaCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#NICHOLAS, NishiCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#NICHOLAS, KollëCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#NICHOLAS
Arabic: نِقُولَا (Niqūlā)Category:Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#NICHOLAS Category:Terms with Arabic translations#NICHOLAS (transliteration), نِيقُولَا m (nīqūlā)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#NICHOLAS, نِيقُولَاوُس m (nīqūlāwus)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#NICHOLAS
Armenian: Նիկողայոս (Nikoġayos)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#NICHOLAS, Նիկողոս (Nikoġos)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#NICHOLAS, Նիկոլ (Nikol)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#NICHOLAS
Basque: NikolasCategory:Terms with Basque translations#NICHOLAS
Belarusian: Мікала́й m (Mikaláj)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#NICHOLAS
Breton: Nikolaz (br)Category:Terms with Breton translations#NICHOLAS
Bulgarian: Никола (bg) (Nikola)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#NICHOLAS, Николай (Nikolaj)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#NICHOLAS
Catalan: Nicolau (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#NICHOLAS, MicolauCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#NICHOLAS
Chinese:
Mandarin: 尼古拉斯 (zh) (Nígǔlāsī)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#NICHOLAS Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#NICHOLAS (transliteration), 尼各老 (Nígèlǎo)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#NICHOLAS (Catholic)
Chuvash: Микулай (Mik̬ulaj)Category:Terms with Chuvash translations#NICHOLAS
Czech: Mikuláš (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#NICHOLAS, MikolášCategory:Terms with Czech translations#NICHOLAS, Nikola (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#NICHOLAS
Danish: Niels (da)Category:Terms with Danish translations#NICHOLAS, NiklasCategory:Terms with Danish translations#NICHOLAS
Dutch: Nicolaas (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#NICHOLAS
Esperanto: NikolaoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#NICHOLAS
Faroese: Niklas mCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#NICHOLAS
Finnish: Niilo (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#NICHOLAS, Niko (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#NICHOLAS
French: Nicolas (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#NICHOLAS
Middle French: NicolasCategory:Terms with Middle French translations#NICHOLAS

Old French: NicholasCategory:Terms with Old French translations#NICHOLAS
Friulian: NiculauCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#NICHOLAS
Galician: Nicolau (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#NICHOLAS
Georgian: ნიკოლოზ (niḳoloz)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#NICHOLAS
German: Nikolaus (de)Category:Terms with German translations#NICHOLAS, Klaus (de)Category:Terms with German translations#NICHOLAS
Greek: Νικόλαος (el) (Nikólaos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#NICHOLAS, Νικόλας (el) (Nikólas)Category:Terms with Greek translations#NICHOLAS
Greenlandic: NikkulaatCategory:Terms with Greenlandic translations#NICHOLAS, NiisiCategory:Terms with Greenlandic translations#NICHOLAS
Hindi: निकोलस m (nikolas)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#NICHOLAS
Hungarian: Miklós (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#NICHOLAS
Icelandic: Nikulás (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#NICHOLAS
Irish: NioclásCategory:Terms with Irish translations#NICHOLAS
Italian: Nicola (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#NICHOLAS, NiccolòCategory:Terms with Italian translations#NICHOLAS
Japanese: (transliteration) ニコラス (Nikorasu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#NICHOLAS
Kazakh: Нықола (Nyqola)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#NICHOLAS (biblical)
Korean: 니콜라스 (Nikollaseu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#NICHOLAS
Ladin: NuclòCategory:Terms with Ladin translations#NICHOLAS
Latin: Nīcolāus mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#NICHOLAS
Latvian: NikolajsCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#NICHOLAS
Lithuanian: Mikalojus (lt)Category:Terms with Lithuanian translations#NICHOLAS, MikasCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#NICHOLAS
Low German: NickelCategory:Terms with Low German translations#NICHOLAS, KlaasCategory:Terms with Low German translations#NICHOLAS
Luxembourgish: NicolasCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#NICHOLAS
Macedonian: Ни́кола (Níkola)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#NICHOLAS
Maltese: Nikola mCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#NICHOLAS
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: Микол (Mikol)Category:Terms with Northern Mansi translations#NICHOLAS
Māori: NīkoraCategory:Terms with Māori translations#NICHOLAS
Middle English: NicholasCategory:Terms with Middle English translations#NICHOLAS
Norwegian: Nils (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian translations#NICHOLAS
Bokmål: Nikolai (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#NICHOLAS
Occitan: Micolau mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#NICHOLAS, Colau mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#NICHOLAS
Persian: نیکولاس (nikolâs)Category:Terms with Persian translations#NICHOLAS
Polish: Mikołaj (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#NICHOLAS
Portuguese: Nicolau (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#NICHOLAS
Romanian: Nicolae (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#NICHOLAS
Russian: Никола́й (ru) m (Nikoláj)Category:Terms with Russian translations#NICHOLAS (cognate), Николас (ru) m (Nikolas)Category:Terms with Russian translations#NICHOLAS (transliteration)
Sami:
Northern Sami: NiillasCategory:Terms with Northern Sami translations#NICHOLAS
Scottish Gaelic: NicolCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#NICHOLAS, NeacailCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#NICHOLAS
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Нѝкола mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#NICHOLAS, Ни́ко mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#NICHOLAS

Latin: Nìkola (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#NICHOLAS, Níko mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#NICHOLAS
Sicilian: Nicola mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#NICHOLAS, Nicò mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#NICHOLAS, Cola mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#NICHOLAS
Slovak: Mikuláš (sk) mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#NICHOLAS
Slovene: Mikávž mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#NICHOLAS, Nikoláj (sl) mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#NICHOLAS
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: Mikławš (hsb) mCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#NICHOLAS
Spanish: Nicolás (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#NICHOLAS
Swahili: NikolauCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#NICHOLAS
Swedish: Nils (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#NICHOLAS, Nikolaus (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#NICHOLAS, Niklas (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#NICHOLAS, Klas (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#NICHOLAS
Thai: นิโคลัส (níkohlát)Category:Terms with Thai translations#NICHOLAS
Ukrainian: Мико́ла (Mykóla)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#NICHOLAS, Мико́лай (Mykólaj)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#NICHOLAS (old style)
Venetan: NicołòCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#NICHOLAS
Vietnamese: NicôlaCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#NICHOLAS
Walloon: NicolaiCategory:Terms with Walloon translations#NICHOLAS
Yakut: Ньукулай (Ňukulay)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#NICHOLAS

Anagrams

halocins, lichanos

Middle English

Descendants

English: Nicholas
Scots: Nicholas
Yola: Niclase

References

“Nicholas, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 May 2018.

Old French

Alternative forms

Nicolas

Etymology

From Latin Category:Old French terms derived from Latin#NICHOLAS Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Category:Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek#NICHOLAS Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

Proper noun

NicholasCategory:Old French lemmas#NICHOLAS Category:Old French proper nouns#NICHOLAS Category:Old French entries with incorrect language header#NICHOLAS Category:Pages with entries#NICHOLAS Category:Pages with 3 entries#NICHOLAS

a male given nameCategory:Old French given names#NICHOLAS Category:Old French male given names#NICHOLAS

Descendants

Middle English: Nicholas