Αἴγυπτος
See also: Αίγυπτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), referring to Ptah’s temple in the important city of Memphis.
See also the Mycenaean Greek demonym 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (ai-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”) (Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǎi̯.ɡyp.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ɡyp.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ʝyp.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʝyp.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.ʝip.tos/
Proper noun
Αἴγυπτος • (Aíguptos) m or f (genitive Αἰγύπτου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ Αἴγυπτος ho, hē Aíguptos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς Αἰγύπτου toû, tês Aigúptou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ tôi, têi Aigúptōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν Αἴγυπτον tòn, tḕn Aígupton | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Αἴγυπτε Aígupte | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Αἰγυπτιάζω (Aiguptiázō)
- Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios)
- Αἰγυπτιόω (Aiguptióō)
- Αἰγυπτιστί (Aiguptistí)
- Αἰγυπτιώδης (Aiguptiṓdēs)
- Αἰγυπτογενής (Aiguptogenḗs)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: Egipte
- Albanian: Egjipti
- Alemannic German: Ägypten
- Amharic: ግብፅ (gəbṣ́)
- Aragonese: Echipto
- Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
- Asturian: Exiptu
- Basque: Egipto
- Belarusian: Егіпет (Jehipjet), Эгіпет (Ehipjet)
- Breton: Egipt
- Bulgarian: Египет (Egipet)
- Catalan: Egipte
- Cornish: Ejyp
- Czech: Egypt
- Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
- Dutch: Egypte
- English: Egypt, Copt, Gypsy
- Estonian: Egipten
- Faroese: Egyptaland
- Finnish: Egypti
- French: Égypte
- Friulian: Egjit
- Galician: Exipto
- Georgian: ეგვიპტე (egviṗṭe)
- German: Ägypten
- Greek: Αίγυπτος (Aígyptos)
- Haitian Creole: Ejip
- Hungarian: Egyiptom
- Icelandic: Egyptaland
- Old Irish: Égept
- Irish: Éigipt
- Italian: Egitto
- Japanese: エジプト (Ejiputo)
- Korean: 이집트 (Ijipteu)
- Latin: Aegyptus
- Latvian: Ēģipte
- Ligurian: Egitto
- Limburgish: Egypte
- Lingala: Ejipte
- Lithuanian: Egiptas
- Low German: Egypte, Ägypten
- Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
- Luxembourgish: Egypten
- Macedonian: Египет (Egipet)
- Malagasy: Egypta
- Manx: Eajipt
- Neapolitan: Naggitto
- Norman: Êgypte
- Northern Sami: Egypta
- Norwegian: Egypt
- Occitan: Egipte
- Old Norse: Egiptaland
- Piedmontese: Egit
- Polish: Egipt
- Portuguese: Egipto
- Romanian: Egipt
- Russian: Египет (Jegipet)
- Scottish Gaelic: Eiphit
- Serbo-Croatian: Египат, Egipat
- Sicilian: Eggittu
- Slovak: Egypt
- Slovene: Egipt
- Spanish: Egipto
- Swedish: Egypten
- Tagalog: Ehipto
- Ukrainian: Єгипет (Jehypet)
- Vietnamese: Ai Cập
- Welsh: Aifft
- West Frisian: Egypte
References
- “Αἴγυπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Αἴγυπτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Αἴγυπτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Αἴγυπτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Αἴγυπτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G125 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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