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

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

Proper noun

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

(masculine) Nile River
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.477
(masculine) King Aegyptus
- 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 9
(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

This list only includes forms of the name derived from Αἴγυπτος, many of which came through the intermediary of Latin Aegyptus. It does not include other common forms derived from Proto-Semitic *miṣr-, including Hebrew מִצְרַיִם‎ (miṣrayim) and Arabic مِصْر‎ (miṣr).

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 (2006–2018)
Αἴγυπτος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G125 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Aegyptus idem, page 1000.
- Egypt idem, page 1009.

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