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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 ( a3-ku-pi-ti-jo , “ Egyptian ” ) (Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος ( Aigúptios ) ).
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ǎi̯.ɡyp.tos/ → /ˈɛ.ʝyp.tos/ → /ˈe.ʝip.tos/
Proper noun
Αἴγυπτος • (Aíguptos ) m or f (genitive Αἰγύπτου ) ; second declension
( masculine ) the Aegyptus river, i.e. the Nile River
800 BCE – 600 BCE ,
Homer ,
Odyssey 4.477–478 :
Αἰγύπτοιο , διιπετέος ποταμοῖο, / (...) ὕδωρAigúptoio , diipetéos potamoîo, / (...) húdōrto the water of the Nile , the river fallen from Zeus
( 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
( 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
800 BCE – 600 BCE ,
Homer ,
Odyssey 17.448 :
μὴ τάχα πικρὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ Κύπρον ἵκηαι· mḕ tákha pikrḕn Aígupton kaì Kúpron híkēai; lest swiftly you come to bitter Egypt and Cyprus;
Inflection
Αἴγυπτος Aíguptos
Αἰγύπτου / Αἰγύπτοιο Aigúptou / Aigúptoio
Αἰγύπτῳ Aigúptōi
Αἴγυπτον Aígupton
Αἴγυπτε Aígupte
Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
Derived terms
Descendants
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 (2006–2025)
“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 .