Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /éɣyptos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /éʝyftos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /éʝiftos/

Proper noun

Αἴγυπτος • ‎(Aíguptos) m, 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

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).

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 (© 2006–2016)
• 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.
• NA27
• Strong's concordance number: G125
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,000, 1,009