Νεῖλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /nêː.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈni.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.los/

Proper noun

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

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

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Νεῖλος; τοῦ Νείλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Νεῖλος ho Neîlos
Genitive	τοῦ Νείλου toû Neílou
Dative	τῷ Νείλῳ tôi 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 (Neilokalámē)
Νειλομέτρῐον (Neilométrion)
Νειλόρῠτος (Neilórutos)
Νειλοσκοπεῖον (Neiloskopeîon)
Νειλωῐ̈́ς (Neilōḯs)
Νειλῷος (Neilôios)
Νειλώτης (Neilṓtēs)
Νειλῶτις (Neilôtis)

Descendants

Albanian: Nili
Arabic: نِيل (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
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018

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