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noun
A shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Ancient Greece and Rome
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin nymphaeum, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖον (numphaîon), a substantivisation of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).
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