Date
Name Nymphidia
Gender Feminine
Usage Late Greek, Literature
Scripts Νυμφιδία
Other Forms FormsNimphidia
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Meaning & History
Feminine form of #Nymphidios# (see NYMPHIDIUS). A bearer of this name was the mother of Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus, a Prefect of the Roman Praetorian Guard from the 1st century AD. In literature, the poet Michael Drayton used the name for a fairy in his epic 'Nimphidia' (1627).