Nicholas
(Νικόλαος), personal name.Known in Greek antiquity, the etymology is evidently “victorious people” or “victorious with the people,” but in the Roman period the word was used to designate a variety of date sent from Syria, allegedly by Nicholas of Damascus, to ... ...
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