Nilus

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnaɪ̯.ləs/ Rhymes: -aɪləs Hyphenation: Ni‧lus === Proper noun === Nilus Obsolete form of Nile. === Anagrams === Linus, Sunil == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈniː.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈniː.lus] Hyphenation: Nī‧lus === Proper noun === Nīlus m sg (genitive Nīlī); second declension Nile (a large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== === 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 == Old English == === Etymology === From Latin Nīlus. === Proper noun === Nilus ? Nile (a large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea) late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans