Nilo

See also: nilo, níló, and Nilo-

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): [ˈnilo]
Rhymes: -ilo
Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

Nilo (accusative Nilon)

Nile
- 1931 December, Raymond Schwartz, “Optimismo”, in La stranga butiko, Tyresö: Inko, →ISBN, page 7:
  Nu, — mi estas krokodilo
  Ie ajn ĉe granda Nilo
  Well, — I am a crocodile
  Anywhere in a grand Nile

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni.lo/
Rhymes: -ilo
Hyphenation: Nì‧lo

Proper noun

il Nilo m

Nile

Related terms

nilota
nilotico

Anagrams

Lino, lino, noli

Latin

Proper noun

Nīlō

dative/ablative of Nīlus

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos), of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnilo/

Proper noun

Nilo m

Nile
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v.
  […] q́ en aquel logar o entra el grand ryo del nilo en la mar medio terrana, cria ſe y un animal que ſemeia en ſus miembros ¬ en todas ſus fayciones ala liebre de tierra. ¬ por endel llaman liebre marina.
  […] that in that place, where the great river Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, there breeds an animal that is similar in its limbs and all of its features to the land hare, and thus they call it a marine hare.

Descendants

Spanish: Nilo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈni.lu/

Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Proper noun

Nilo m

Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)

Proper noun

Nilo m

a male given name

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish Nilo, from Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos), of Semitic origin (compare Arabic نهر‎ (nahr), Aramaic נהרא‎ (nahrā), Hebrew נהר‎ (nahar, “river”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnilo/ [ˈni.lo]
Rhymes: -ilo
Syllabification: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

Nilo m

Nile

Derived terms

cocodrilo del Nilo
nilómetro