Gender: Masculine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Late Greek
Scripts Νεῖλος(Ancient Greek)
Meaning
Greek name of the Nile River, possibly of Semitic origin meaning “river”. In Greek mythology he was the god of the Nile, the son of Okeanos and Tethys.This name was borne by a 5th-century saint who lived in the Sinai Peninsula. It was also borne by a 10th-century Byzantine saint, usually called Nilus in English, who established the monastery at Grottaferrata near Rome.