Candace

• Candice

Ancient Greek Κανδάκη, from a Nubian (Cushitic) hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (Ethiopia).

Candace (plural Candaces)

1. A female given name.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 8:27–28:

     and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning,

Candace (plural Candaces)

1. Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
   • 2012, Hassan B. Abdelwahab, Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy, →ISBN:

     Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]