Nydia

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Gender Feminine
Usage English (Rare), Spanish, Literature
Pronounced Pron. /ˈnɪd.i.ə/(English) /ˈni.ðja/(Spanish)

Meaning & History

Used by British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a blind flower-seller in his novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). He perhaps based it on Latin nidus "nest".