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): /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

(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

→ Afrikaans: Egipte
→ Aghwan: 𐔴𐔲𐔼𐕢𐕜𐕒𐕚 (egipṭos)
→ 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
→ Coptic: ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ (guptios)
- → Arabic: قبط‎
  - → French: Copte
    - → English: Copt
→ Czech: Egypt
→ Danish: Ægypten, Egypten
→ Dutch: Egypte
→ Estonian: Egiptus
→ Faroese: Egyptaland
→ Finnish: Egypti
→ 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
- → Old French: Egypte
  - Middle French: Egypte
    - French: Égypte
    - → Middle English: Egipt
      - English: Egypt
→ 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 (2006–2023)
“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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aegyptus idem, page 15.
- egypt idem, page 263.