NICE  , an See also:

• ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective which in See also:

• PRESENT

present usage has two See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main meanings: (1) fastidious, particular, precise or scrupulous, andpleasant, See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind or agreeable . The first meaning has been See also:

• COMMON

common since the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, the second only since the end of the 18th . In O . Fr., from which the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form was adapted, the word is See also:

• NICHE (through Fr. niche from Ital. nicchia, nicchio, shell; possibly from Lat. mitulus, a sea-mussel; cf. " napkin " from mappa)

niche or nice, which are derivatives of See also:

• LAT

Lat. nescius, not knowing, ignorant . The development in meaning is doubtful; some authorities take it as (1). foolish, (2) foolishly precise, (1) delicate, (4) pleasant . See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat suggests an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early confusion with the word " nesh," soft, delicate, still surviving dialectically . NICEPHORUS, the name of three emperors of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East .