English

Proper noun

Nile

1. A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
   • 1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus

     The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.

Derived terms

See also

• Branches of the Nile:
  • Bolbitine (Bolbitic)
  • Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic)
  • Canopic (Heracleotic, Naucratitic)
  • Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic)
  • Pelusian (Bubastic)
  • Saïtic
  • Sebennytic (Thermutiac)

Translations

Anagrams

• LEIN, lien, line, Neil

Latin

Noun

nīle

1. vocative singular of nīlus