Nilus

See also: nilus and Nílus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪləs/

Proper noun

Nilus

1. Obsolete form of Nile.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

     As looks the ſun through Nilus flowing ſtream,
     Or when the morning holds him in her armes.
     So lookes my Lordly loue, faire Tamburlaine: […]

   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VI.] The Iland Taprobane.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 129:

     But afterwards, for that the boates and veſſels uſed upon this ſea in the paſſage thither, were made and wound of papyr reeds like thoſe of the river Nilus, […]

Anagrams

• Linus, Sunil

Latin

The river in Luxor

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈniː.lus/, [ˈniːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.lus/, [ˈniːlus]

Proper noun

Nīlus m sg (genitive Nīlī); second declension

1. Nile (river)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Nīlus
Genitive	Nīlī
Dative	Nīlō
Accusative	Nīlum
Ablative	Nīlō
Vocative	Nīle

Derived terms

• nīlus
• Nīliacus
• Nīlicola
• Nīligena
• Nīlōticus
• Nīlōtis

References

• “Nilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Nilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Nilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• “Nilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Nilus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Nilus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly