Nilo

Borrowed from Arabic النِّيل (an-nīl). Compare French le Nil, English Nile, German der Nil, Polish Nil, Russian Ни́л (Níl), Spanish el Nilo, Italian ìl Nìlo, Catalan el Nil, Portuguese o Nilo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnilo/

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• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

Nilo (accusative Nilon)

2. the Nile (river)
   • 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

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

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

il Nilo m

2. the Nile (river)

• Lino, lino, noli

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.lo]
• Hyphenation: Nī‧lō

Nīlō

1. dative/ablative of Nīlus

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

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

Nilo m

2. the Nile (river)
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, fol. 17v:

     […] q̃ 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.

• Spanish: Nilo

• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation: Ni‧lo

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

Nilo m

2. the Nile (river)

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Nilo m

1. a male given name

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”)).

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

Nilo m

2. the Nile (river)

• Nilo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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

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

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

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