Aegyptus
See also: aegyptus
English
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
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (ai-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) IPA(key): /ae̯ˈɡyp.tus/, [äe̯ˈɡʏpt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈd͡ʒip.tus/, [eˈd͡ʒipt̪us]
Proper noun
Aegyptus f sg (genitive Aegyptī); second declension
- Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Aegyptus |
Genitive | Aegyptī |
Dative | Aegyptō |
Accusative | Aegyptum |
Ablative | Aegyptō |
Vocative | Aegypte |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- Aragonese: Echipto
- Asturian: Exiptu
- → Basque: Egipto
- Catalan: Egipte
- Corsican: Egittu, Eghjittu
- → Czech: Egypt
- → Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
- → Old East Slavic: Егѵпетъ (Egüpetŭ), Егѵпьтъ (Egüpĭtŭ)
- → Old English: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
- → Esperanto: egipto
- Ido: Egiptia
- → Estonian: Egiptus
- → Farefare: Egipto
- → Finnish: Egypti
- Old French: Egypte (see there for further descendants)
- → West Frisian: Egypte
- Friulian: Egjit
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Egipto
- → Hungarian: Egyiptom
- → Interlingua: Egypto
- → Old Irish: Égept
- Irish: Éigipt
- Manx: Eajipt
- Scottish Gaelic: Eiphit
- Italian: Egitto
- Ladino: Egipt
- → Latvian: Ēģipte
- Ligurian: Egitto
- → Lithuanian: Egiptas
- → Middle Dutch: Egypten
- Neapolitan: Naggitto
- Occitan: Egipte
- → Middle High German:
- → Low German: Egypte, Ägypten
- → Malagasy: Egypta
- → Old Norse: Egiptaland
- Faroese: Egyptaland
- Icelandic: Egyptaland
- → Norwegian: Egypt
- Piedmontese: Egit
- → Polish: Egipt
- → Proto-Brythonic: *ėɣɨft
- → Middle Welsh: Eifft
- → Welsh: Aifft
- → Middle Welsh: Eifft
- Romanian: Egipt
- Romansch: Egipta
- → Northern Sami: Egypta
- → Serbo-Croatian: Египат, Egipat
- Sicilian: Eggittu
- → Slovak: Egypt
- → Slovene: Egipt
- →⇒ Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
- Spanish: Egipto
- → Swedish: Egypten
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.
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