niece
noun /niːs/
/niːs/
- the daughter of your brother or sister; the daughter of your husband’s or wife’s brother or sister
compare nephewTopics Family and relationshipsa2侄女;外甥女 词源Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin neptis ‘granddaughter’, feminine of nepos ‘nephew, grandson’, from an Indo-European root shared by Dutch nicht, German Nichte.