Νεῖλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the noun νεῖλος (neîlos, “river valley”), possibly from Semitic. The Egyptian name for it was ḥꜥpj.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nêː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈni.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.los/
Proper noun
Νεῖλος • (Neîlos) m (genitive Νείλου); second declension
- the river Nile
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 338
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Νεῖλος; τοῦ Νείλου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Νεῖλος ho Neîlos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Νείλου toû Neílou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Νείλῳ tôi Neílōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Νεῖλον tòn Neîlon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Νεῖλε Neîle | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Νειλαιεύς (Neilaieús)
- Νειλαῖος (Neilaîos)
- Νειλοβροχέω (Neilobrokhéō)
- Νειλογενής (Neilogenḗs)
- Νειλοθερής (Neilotherḗs)
- Νειλοκᾰλᾰ́μη (Neilokalámē)
- Νειλομέτρῐον (Neilométrion)
- Νειλόρῠτος (Neilórutos)
- Νειλοσκοπεῖον (Neiloskopeîon)
- Νειλωῐ̈́ς (Neilōḯs)
- Νειλῷος (Neilôios)
- Νειλώτης (Neilṓtēs)
- Νειλῶτις (Neilôtis)
Descendants
- Albanian: Nili
- Arabic: نِيل (nīl)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)
- Jewish Aramaic: נִילוֹס (Nîlôs)
- Catalan: Nil
- Dutch: Nijl
- English: Nile
- French: Nil
- Greek: Νείλος (Neílos)
- Hebrew: נילוס
- Italian: Nilo
- Latin: Nīlus
- Persian: نیل
- Polish: Nil
- Portuguese: Nilo
- Russian: Нил (Nil)
- Spanish: Nilo
- Turkish: Nil
Further reading
- “Νεῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Νεῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Νεῖλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018