Esperanto

Proper noun

Nilo ‎(accusative Nilon)

1. Nile
   • 1931 December, Raymond Schwartz, “Optimismo”, in La stranga butiko, Tyresö: Inko, ISBN 91-7303-067-8, page 7:

     Nu, — mi estas krokodilo
     Ie ajn ĉe granda Nilo

     Well, — I am a crocodile
     Anywhere in a grand Nile

Italian

Pronunciation

/ˈnilo/

Proper noun

Nilo m

1. Nile

Related terms

• nilotico

Anagrams

• lino, Lino
• noli

Latin

Noun

Nīlō

1. dative of Nīlus
2. ablative of Nīlus

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈni.lo]

Proper noun

Nilo m

1. 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

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈni.lu/

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Nilo m

1. Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Nilo m

1. A male given name

Spanish

Etymology

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): /ˈni.lo/

Proper noun

Nilo m

1. Nile

Derived terms

• cocodrilo del Nilo m
• nilómetro m

See also

• Nilo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Latin

Noun

nīlō

1. dative singular of nīlus
2. ablative singular of nīlus
3. (poetic, syncopated) dative singular of nihilum
4. (poetic, syncopated) ablative singular of nihilum

   c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 97.3

Volapük

Adverb

nilo

1. close-by