Nilus

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪləs/

Nilus

1. Obsolete form of Nile.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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: […]

• Linus, Sunil

From Ancient Greek Νεῖλος (Neîlos).

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

Nīlus m sg (genitive Nīlī); second declension

1. Nile (river)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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

• “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, 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 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