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

Proper noun

Aegyptus

1. A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (a3-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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯ˈɡyp.tus/, [äe̯ˈɡʏpt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈd͡ʒip.tus/, [eˈd͡ʒipt̪us]

Proper noun

Aegyptus f sg (genitive Aegyptī); second declension

1. Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aegyptus
genitive	Aegyptī
dative	Aegyptō
accusative	Aegyptum
ablative	Aegyptō
vocative	Aegypte

Derived terms

• aegyptiacus
• aegyptius

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 Ruthenian: *Егѵпетъ (*Ehipet), *Єгѵпетъ (*Jehipet), *Еґѵпет (*Egipet), *Єґѵпетъ (*Jegipet)
    • Belarusian: Егі́пет (Jehípjet), Эгі́пет (Ehípjet)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: Еґі́пет (Egípet)
    • Ukrainian: Єги́пет (Jehýpet), Єґи́пет (Jegýpet)
  • Russian: Еги́пет (Jegípet), Егѵ́петъ (Jegípet) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Kyrgyz: Эгипет (Egipet)
    • → Manchu: ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡝᡨ (egipet), ᡝᡤᡳᡦᡨ (egipt)
    • → Mongolian:

      Cyrillic script: Египет (Jegipet)

      Mongolian script: ᠶᠧᠭᠢᠫᠧᠲ᠋ (yēgipēt)

• → 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
  • Galician: Exipto
  • Portuguese: Egipto, Egito
• → 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
  • Dutch: Egypte
    • Afrikaans: Egipte
    • Jersey Dutch: Jâpten
  • Limburgish: Egypte
• Neapolitan: Naggitto
• Occitan: Egipte
• → Middle High German:
  • Alemannic German: Ägypten
  • Bavarian: Egyptn, Ägyptn, Ägypten
  • German: Ägypten
  • Luxembourgish: Egypten
  • → Plautdietsch: Äjipten
• → 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: yr Aifft (“Egypt”)
• Romansch: Egipta
• → Northern Sami: Egypta
• → Serbo-Croatian: Египат, Egipat
• Sicilian: Eggittu
• → Slovak: Egypt
• → Slovene: Egipt
• →⇒ Lower Sorbian: Egyptojska
• Spanish: Egipto
  • → Basque: ijito (“Roma”)
  • → Kapampangan: Eyiptu
  • → Quechua: Ihiptu
  • → Tagalog: Ehipto
• → 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.