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See also: Αίγυπτος
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (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
[edit]Αἴγυπτος • (Aíguptos) m or f (genitive Αἰγύπτου); second declension
- (masculine) the Aegyptus river, i.e. the Nile River
- (masculine) King Aegyptus
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 9–10:
- γάμον Αἰγύπτου παίδων ἀσεβῆ / 'ξονοταζόμεναι.
- gámon Aigúptou paídōn asebê / 'xonotazómenai.
- abhorring marriage to the sons of Aegyptus as profane
- γάμον Αἰγύπτου παίδων ἀσεβῆ / 'ξονοταζόμεναι.
- (feminine) Egypt (an ancient country and region of North Africa and Western Asia)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.425–426:
- ὅς μ' ἅμα ληϊστῆρσι πολυπλάγκτοισιν ἀνῆκεν / Αἴγυπτόνδ' ἰέναι
- hós m' háma lēïstêrsi poluplánktoisin anêken / Aíguptónd' iénai
- who sent me alongside ever-wandering pirates / to go to Egypt
- ὅς μ' ἅμα ληϊστῆρσι πολυπλάγκτοισιν ἀνῆκεν / Αἴγυπτόνδ' ἰέναι
Inflection
[edit]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
[edit]- Αἰγυπτιάζω (Aiguptiázō)
- Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios)
- Αἰγυπτιόω (Aiguptióō)
- Αἰγυπτιστί (Aiguptistí)
- Αἰγυπτιώδης (Aiguptiṓdēs)
- Αἰγυπτογενής (Aiguptogenḗs)
Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- → Aghwan: 𐔴𐔲𐔼𐕢𐕜𐕒𐕚 (egipṭos)
- → Albanian: Egjipti
- → Old Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
- Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
- → Amharic: ግብፅ (gəbṣ́)
- → Bulgarian: Египет (Egipet)
- → Coptic: ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ (guptios) (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Georgian: ეგჳპტჱ (egwiṗṭē)
- Georgian: ეგვიპტე (egviṗṭe)
- Greek: Αίγυπτος (Aígyptos)
- → Thai: ไอยคุปต์ (ai-yá-kúp)
- → Hawaiian: ʻAikupika, Aigupita, ʻAikupita
- → Latin: Aegyptus (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: Египет (Egipet)
- → Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭲𐭮𐭠𐭢 (agīptôs)
- → Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script: Єгѷптъ (Egü̏ptŭ)
- → Rarotongan: ‘Aiviti
References
[edit]- “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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