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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νειλῶτις (Neilôtis), feminine of Νειλώτης (Neilṓtēs).
Pronunciation
Adjective
Nīlōtis (genitive Nīlōtidis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (rare) Nilotic; belonging to the Nile
61 CE – 65 CE,
Lucan,
Pharsalia 10.142:
- candida Sidonio perlucent pectora filo, / quod Nilotis acus conpressum pectine Serum / solvit et extenso laxavit stamina velo.
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata 10.6.7:
- Quando eques et picti tunica Nilotide Mauri / Ibitis, et populi vox erit una 'Venit'?
- 1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- When shall the cavalry ride and the painted Moors in their tunics of Nile, and one voice of the people be heard: “He comes.”
c. 430 CE – c. 489 CE,
Sidonius Apollinaris,
Epistolae 8.12:
- et post haec portum Alingonis tam piger calcas, ac si tibi nunc esset ad limitem Danuvinum contra incursaces Massagetas proficiscendum, vel si nunc etiam tuae navi stagna Nilotidis aquae per indigenas formidata crocodillos transfretarentur
1494, Angelo Poliziano,
Silvae :
- Alter Alexandri nilotidas abnegat arces
Exosus natale solum, tumidamque colosso
Solis et irriguam pluvio Rhodon expetit auro.
c. 1480 – 1490, Faustino Perisauli,
De triumpho stultitiae :
- Reddiderant olim celebrem Nilotida Memphim
Ardua Pyramidum moles grandesque colossi,
At modo nulla vides operis vestigia tanti
Declension
Third-declension adjective, feminine only.
Only used in the feminine. Only the nominative singular Nīlōtis and ablative singular Nīlōtide are attested in Classical Latin.
Synonyms
References
- “Nīlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Nīlōtis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.