Αἴγυπτος

See also: Αίγυπτος

Ancient Greek

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

(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

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.

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 (2006–2019)
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.

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