Αἴγυπτος

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)).

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

1. (masculine) the Aegyptus river, i.e. the Nile River
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.477–478:

     Αἰγύπτοιο, διιπετέος ποταμοῖο, / (...) ὕδωρ

     Aigúptoio, diipetéos potamoîo, / (...) húdōr

     to the water of the Nile, the river fallen from Zeus

2. (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

3. (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;

• Αἰγυπτιάζω (Aiguptiázō)
• Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios)
• Αἰγυπτιόω (Aiguptióō)
• Αἰγυπτιστί (Aiguptistí)
• Αἰγυπτιώδης (Aiguptiṓdēs)
• Αἰγυπτογενής (Aiguptogenḗs)

• “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 (2006–2024)
• “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.