Aegyptus

See also: Ægyptus and aegyptus

English

Alternative forms

• Ægyptus (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːˈd͡ʒɪptəs/
• Hyphenation: Ae‧gyp‧tus

Proper noun

Aegyptus

1. A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (a3-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”)), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”), referring to Ptah's temple in the important city of Memphis. The Late Egyptian pronunciation is reflected by Akkadian 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ /⁠ḫikuptaḫ⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯ˈɡyp.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈd͡ʒip.tus]

Proper noun

Aegyptus f sg (genitive Aegyptī); second declension

1. (now historical) Ancient Egypt (a civilization that existed in the valley of the Nile River from c. 3150 BCE to 30 BCE)
2. (now historical) Roman Egypt (a province of the Roman Empire in North Africa; capital: Alexandrēa)
3. (New Latin) Egypt (a country in North Africa and West Asia; in full, Respublica Arabica Aegypti; capital: Cāirus)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aegyptus
genitive	Aegyptī
dative	Aegyptō
accusative	Aegyptum
ablative	Aegyptō
vocative	Aegypte

Related terms

• Aegyptiacus
• Aegyptius

Descendants

• Aragonese: Echipto
• Asturian: Exiptu
• Catalan: Egipte
• Corsican: Egittu, Eghjittu
• Friulian: Egjit
• Italian: Egitto
• Ladin: Egipt
• Ladino: Ayifto, Ejipto
• Ligurian: Egitto
• Neapolitan: Naggitto
• Occitan: Egipte
• Old French: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: Egit
• Romansh: Egipta
• Sicilian: Eggittu

Borrowings

• → Basque: Egipto
• → Czech: Egypt
• → Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
• → Esperanto: egipto
  • Ido: Egiptia
• → Estonian: Egiptus
• → Farefare: Egipto
• → Finnish: Egypti
• → Hungarian: Egyiptom
• → Interlingua: Egypto
• → Latvian: Ēģipte
• → Lithuanian: Egiptas
• →⇒ Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
• → Low German: Egypte, Ägypten
• → Malagasy: Egypta
• → Middle Dutch: Egypten
  • Dutch: Egypte
    • Afrikaans: Egipte
    • Jersey Dutch: Jâpten
  • Limburgish: Egypte
• → Middle High German:
  • Alemannic German: Ägypten
  • Bavarian: Egyptn, Ägyptn, Ägypten
  • German: Ägypten
  • Luxembourgish: Egypten
  • → Plautdietsch: Äjipten
• → Northern Sami: Egypta
• → Norwegian: Egypt
• → Old Norse: Egiptaland
  • Faroese: Egyptaland
  • Icelandic: Egyptaland
• → Polish: Egipt
• → Proto-Brythonic: *ėɣɨft
  • → Middle Welsh: Eifft
    • Welsh: yr Aifft (“Egypt”)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Египат, Egipat
• → Slovak: Egypt
• → Slovene: Egipt
• → Old East Slavic: Егѵпетъ (Jegüpetŭ), Егѵпьтъ (Jegüpĭtŭ)
  • Old Ruthenian: *Егѵпетъ (*Ehipet), *Єгѵпетъ (*Jehipet), *Еґѵпет (*Egipet), *Єґѵпетъ (*Jegipet)
    • Belarusian: Егі́пет (Jehípjet), Эгі́пет (Ehípjet)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: Еґі́пет (Egípet)
    • Ukrainian: Єги́пет (Jehýpet), Єґи́пет (Jegýpet)
  • Russian: Еги́пет (Jegípet), Еги́петъ (Jegípet), Егѵ́петъ (Jegípet) — pre-1918 spelling
    • → Kyrgyz: Эгипет (Egipet)
    • → Manchu: ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡝᡨ (egipet), ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡨ (egipt)
    • → Mongolian:

      Cyrillic script: Египет (Jegipet)

      Mongolian script: ᠶᠧᠭᠢᠫᠧᠲ᠋ (yēgipēt)

• → Old English: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: Egipto, Egito, Egypto
  • Galician: Exipto
  • Portuguese: Egito
• → Old Irish: Égept
  • Irish: Éigipt
  • Manx: Eajipt
  • Scottish Gaelic: Èipheit, Èiphit
• → Old Spanish: Egipto
  • Spanish: Egipto
    • → Basque: ijito (“Roma”)
    • → Kapampangan: Eyiptu
    • → Quechua: Ihiptu
    • → Tagalog: Ehipto
• → Swedish: Egypten
• → West Frisian: Egypte

References

• “Aegyptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Aegyptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.