Nilo

See also: nilo, níló, and Nilo-

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Nilo (accusative Nilon)

  1. 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/, [ˈn̺iːl̺o]
  • Stress: Nìlo
  • Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

il Nilo m

  1. Nile

Anagrams


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


Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Nilo m

  1. Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)

Proper noun

Nilo m

  1. 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/

Proper noun

Nilo m

  1. Nile

Derived terms

  • cocodrilo del Nilo
  • nilómetro

See also

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