Νεῖλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the noun νεῖλος (neîlos, “river valley”), possibly from Semitic root naḥal. The Egyptian name for it was ḥꜥpj.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Νεῖλος • (Neîlos) m (genitive Νείλου); second declension

  1. the river Nile

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Νεῖλος; τοῦ Νείλου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Νεῖλος
ho Neîlos
Genitive τοῦ Νείλου
toû Neílou
Dative τῷ Νείλῳ
tōî Neílōi
Accusative τὸν Νεῖλον
tòn Neîlon
Vocative Νεῖλε
Neîle
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • Νειλαιεύς (Neilaieús)
  • Νειλαῖος (Neilaîos)
  • Νειλοβροχέω (Neilobrokhéō)
  • Νειλογενής (Neilogenḗs)
  • Νειλοθερής (Neilotherḗs)
  • Νειλοκᾰλᾰ́μη (Neilokălắmē)
  • Νειλομέτρῐον (Neilométrĭon)
  • Νειλόρῠτος (Neilórŭtos)
  • Νειλοσκοπεῖον (Neiloskopeîon)
  • Νειλωῐ̈́ς (Neilōĭ̈́s)
  • Νειλῷος (Neilōîos)
  • Νειλώτης (Neilṓtēs)
  • Νειλῶτις (Neilôtis)

Descendants

  • Albanian: Nili
  • Arabic: النِّيل (an-nīl)
  • Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܢܝܠܘܣ (Nīlōs)
    Jewish Aramaic: נִילוֹס (Nîlôs)
  • Catalan: Nil
  • Dutch: Nijl
  • English: Nile
  • French: Nil
  • Greek: Νείλος (Neílos)
  • Hebrew: נילוס
  • Italian: Nilo
  • Latin: Nīlus
  • Persian: نیل (nil)
  • Polish: Nil
  • Portuguese: Nilo
  • Russian: Нил (Nil)
  • Sicilian: Nilu
  • Spanish: Nilo
  • Turkish: Nil

Further reading

  • “Νεῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Νεῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Νεῖλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
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