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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nilo (accusative Nilon)
- Nile
1931 December, Raymond Schwartz, “Optimismo”, in La stranga butiko, Tyresö: Inko, published 2000, →ISBN, page 7:
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
- Nile
Anagrams
Latin
Proper noun
Nīlō
- dative/ablative of Nīlus
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos), of Semitic origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Nilo m
- 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
Learned borrowing from Latin Nīlus, from Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).
Proper noun
Nilo m
- Nile (a river in northeastern Africa)
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Nilo m
- 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/
- Rhymes: -ilo
- Syllabification: Ni‧lo
Proper noun
Nilo m
- Nile
Derived terms
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