Nilo

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See also: nilo, níló, and Nilo-

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈni.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Hyphenation: Nì‧lo

Proper noun

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il Nilo m

  1. Nile
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Proper noun

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Nīlō

  1. dative/ablative of Nīlus

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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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

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  • Spanish: Nilo

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Proper noun

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Nilo m

  1. Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Nilo m

  1. a male given name

Spanish

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnilo/ [ˈni.lo]
  • Rhymes: -ilo
  • Syllabification: Ni‧lo

Proper noun

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Nilo m

  1. Nile

Derived terms

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See also

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