nympha
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of nympha
1595–1605; < Latin nympha ( see nymph)
Example Sentences
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These insects, during the stage of egg, larva, and nympha, live in water, and afterwards, as developed insects, in the air.
From Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Sutherland, Halliday G.
Virgil makes his wife's name Marica— Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica Accipimus.—Aen. vii.
From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius
In one of his Latin epigrams occurs the celebrated line upon the miracle at Cana: Vidit et erubuit nympha pudica Deum: as englished by Dryden, The conscious water saw its Lord and blushed.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Christina, dulcis nympha, diutiùs Ne te moretur: qui merito clues Prudens Ulysses, sperne doctæ Popula deliciasque Circes.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Morton, Charles
"O lacrymarum fons, tenero sacros Ducemtium ortus ex animo, quater Felix, in imo qui scatentem Pectore, te, pia nympha, sensit."
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles
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