Nilotic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nilotic \Ni*lot"ic\, a. [L. Niloticus, fr. Nilus the Nile, Gr.
     ?: cf. F. nilotique.]
     Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic
     crocodile.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Nilotic
       adj 1: of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near
              it
       2: of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of
          languages; "Nilotic syntax"
       n : a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the
           Chari-Nile group [syn: {Nilotic language}]