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

 

• IPA^(key): /ǎi̯.ɡyp.tos/ → /ˈɛ.ʝyp.tos/ → /ˈe.ʝip.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǎi̯.ɡyp.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡyp.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ʝyp.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ʝyp.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ʝip.tos/

Proper noun

Αἴγυπτος • (Aíguptos) m or f (genitive Αἰγύπτου); second declension

1. (masculine) Nile River
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.477
2. (masculine) King Aegyptus
   • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 9
3. (feminine) Egypt
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.448
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.426

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ Αἴγυπτος; τοῦ, τῆς Αἰγύπτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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.
  • aegyptus idem, page 15.
  • egypt idem, page 263.