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Νεῖλος

Νεῖλος

Ancient Greek

Proper noun

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

the river Nile
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 338

Inflection

Second declension of Νεῖλος, Νείλου

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Νεῖλος
Genitive	τοῦ Νείλου
Dative	τῷ Νείλῳ
Accusative	τὸν Νεῖλον
Vocative	Νεῖλε

Derived terms

Νειλαιεύς ‎(Neilaieús)
Νειλαῖος ‎(Neilaîos)
Νειλοβροχέω ‎(Neilobrokhéō)
Νειλογενής ‎(Neilogenḗs)
Νειλοθερής ‎(Neilotherḗs)

Νειλοκᾰλᾰ́μη ‎(Neilokalámē)
Νειλομέτρῐον ‎(Neilométrion)
Νειλόρῠτος ‎(Neilórutos)
Νειλοσκοπεῖον ‎(Neiloskopeîon)

Νειλωῐ̈́ς ‎(Neilōḯs)
Νειλῷος ‎(Neilôios)
Νειλώτης ‎(Neilṓtēs)
Νειλῶτις ‎(Neilôtis)

Descendants

Albanian: Nili
Arabic: نيل
Dutch: Nijl
English: Nile
French: Nil

Greek: Νείλος ‎(Neílos)
Hebrew: נילוס
Latin: Nīlus
Persian: نیل

Russian: Нил ‎(Nil)
Spanish: Nilo
Turkish: Nil

References

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018