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Αἰγυπτιακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἰγυπτιακός

Structure: Αἰγυπτιακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for the Egyptians

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἔπειτα θριάμβουσ κατήγαγε τὸν Αἰγυπτιακόν, τὸν Ποντικόν, τὸν Λιβυκόν, οὐκ ἀπὸ Σκηπίωνοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ Ιὄβα δῆθεν τοῦ βασιλέωσ, τότε καὶ Ιὄβασ υἱὸσ ὢν ἐκείνου κομιδῇ νήπιοσ ἐν τῷ θριάμβῳ παρήχθη, μακαριωτάτην ἁλοὺσ ἅλωσιν, ἐκ βαρβάρου καὶ Νομάδοσ Ἑλλήνων τοῖσ πολυμαθεστάτοισ ἐναρίθμιοσ γενέσθαι συγγραφεῦσι. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 55 1:2)
  • ὅτι δὲ τοῦτο τὸ γένοσ Αἰγυπτιακόν ἐστι σημεῖον εἶναι τὸ περιτέμνεσθαι τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ παραπλησίωσ τοῖσ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον, διαμένοντοσ τοῦ νομίμου παρὰ τοῖσ ἀποίκοισ, καθάπερ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 55 5:1)
  • ἀληθὲσ δὲ καὶ τὸ Ἡροδότου καὶ ἔστιν Αἰγυπτιακὸν τὸ τὸν μὲν πηλὸν ταῖσ χερσὶ φυρᾶν, τὸ δὲ στέαρ τὸ εἰσ τὴν ἀρτοποιίαν τοῖσ ποσί. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for the Egyptians

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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