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

• → Aghwan: 𐔴𐔲𐔼𐕢𐕜𐕒𐕚 (egipṭos)
• → Albanian: Egjipti
• → Alemannic German: Ägypten
• → Amharic: ግብፅ (gəbṣ́)
• → Aragonese: Echipto
• → Asturian: Exiptu
• → Basque: Egipto
• → Belarusian: Егіпет (Jehipjet), Эгіпет (Ehipjet)
• → Breton: Egipt
• → Bulgarian: Египет (Egipet)
• → Catalan: Egipte
• → Cornish: Ejyp
• → Coptic: ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ (guptios)
  • → Arabic: قبط
    • → French: Copte
      • → English: Copt
      • → Spanish: copto
  • → Egyptian Arabic: كوفتس (kuftis)
• → Czech: Egypt
• → Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
• → Estonian: Egiptus
• → Faroese: Egyptaland
• → Friulian: Egjit
• → Galician: Exipto
• → German: Ägypten
• Greek: Αίγυπτος (Aígyptos)
• → Haitian Creole: Ejip
• → Icelandic: Egyptaland
• → Japanese: エジプト (Ejiputo)
• → Latin: Aegyptus
  • → Finnish: Egypti
  • → Old French: Egypte
    • Middle French: Egypte
      • French: Égypte
      • → Middle English: Egipt
        • English: Egypt
          • → Korean: 이집트 (Ijipteu)
  • Italian: Egitto
  • → Hungarian: Egyiptom
  • → Latvian: Ēģipte
  • → Middle Dutch: Egypten
    • → Dutch: Egypte
      • Afrikaans: Egipte
      • Jersey Dutch: Jâpten
  • → Old East Slavic: Егѵпетъ (Egüpetŭ), Егѵпьтъ (Egüpĭtŭ)
    • Russian: Египет (Jegipet)
  • → Old Irish: Égept
    • Irish: Éigipt
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *ėɣɨft
    • → Middle Welsh: Eifft
      • → Welsh: Aifft
• → 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 Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
  • Armenian: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
• → Old Georgian: ეგჳპტჱ (egwiṗṭē)
  • Georgian: ეგვიპტე (egviṗṭe)
• → Old Norse: Egiptaland
• → Piedmontese: Egit
• → Polish: Egipt
• → Portuguese: Egipto
• → Romanian: Egipt
• → 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
• → 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.