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 (a3-ku-pi-ti-jo, “Egyptian”) (Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios)).

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, / (...) ὕδωρ
  Aigúptoio, diipetéos potamoîo, / (...) húdōr
  to 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;

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 tōî, tēî 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.

Second declension of Αἴγυπτος; Αἰγύπτου (Epic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Αἴγυπτος Aíguptos
Genitive	Αἰγύπτου / Αἰγύπτοιο Aigúptou / Aigúptoio
Dative	Αἰγύπτῳ Aigúptōi
Accusative	Αἴγυπτον Aígupton
Vocative	Αἴγυπτε Aígupte
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aegyptus idem, page 15.
- egypt idem, page 263.