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Αἴγυπτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἴγυπτος

Structure: Αἰγυπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the river Nile
  2. Egypt

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Αἴγυπτος Αἰγύπτω Αί̓γυπτοι
Genitive Αἰγύπτου Αἰγύπτοιν Αἰγύπτων
Dative Αἰγύπτῳ Αἰγύπτοιν Αἰγύπτοις
Accusative Αί̓γυπτον Αἰγύπτω Αἰγύπτους
Vocative Αί̓γυπτε Αἰγύπτω Αί̓γυπτοι

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

  • " καὶ ταῦτα ὡσ ἀπενειχθέντα ὑπὸ τούτου εὖ δοκέειν σφι εἰρῆσθαι, ὡσ δὲ λέγεται ὑπ’ Αἰγυπτίων, δακρύειν μὲν Κροῖσον ἐτετεύχεε γὰρ καὶ οὗτοσ ἐπισπόμενοσ Καμβύσῃ ἐπ’ Αἴγυπτουσ, δακρύειν δὲ Περσέων τοὺσ παρεόντασ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 14 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. the river Nile

Related

Similar forms

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

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