Nilo

See also: nilo, níló, and Nilo-

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈnilo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

Nilo (accusative Nilon)

1. Nile
   • 1931 December, Raymond Schwartz, “Optimismo”, in La stranga butiko, Tyresö: Inko, published 2000, →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

1. Nile

Related terms

• nilota
• nilotico

Anagrams

• Lino, lino, noli

Latin

Proper noun

Nīlō

1. 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.lu/

• Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing 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

Inherited 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

1. Nile

Derived terms

• cocodrilo del Nilo
• ganso del Nilo
• nilómetro

See also

• Nilo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Nilo, from Old Spanish Nilo, from Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos), possibly of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈnilo/ [ˈn̪iː.lo]
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Syllabification: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

Nilo (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜎᜓ)

1. Nile (a large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world)

   Synonym: Ilog Nilo

Further reading

• “Nilo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018