Egipto
See also: egipto
Classical Nahuatl
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [eˈɡipto]
- Rhymes: -ipto
- Hyphenation: E‧gip‧to
Proper noun
Egipto (accusative Egipton)
- Egypt
- 1907, Kabe, chapter 1, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:
- En la tridek-tria jaro de l' feliĉa regado de Ramzes XII, Egipto festis du solenojn, kiuj plenigis ĝiajn ortodoksajn loĝantojn per fiero kaj feliĉo.
- In the thirty-third year of the happy reign of Ramses XII, Egypt celebrated two events that filled her loyal inhabitants with pride and joy.
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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin Aegyptus (“Egypt”), from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos, “Egypt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ˈd͡ʒip.to/
Proper noun
Egipto
- Egypt
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 14 (facsimile):
- fugiu con el a Egipto. terra de Reẏ Faraon.
- ran away with him to Egypt, land of the Pharaoh king.
- fugiu con el a Egipto. terra de Reẏ Faraon.
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Egipto m
- Superseded spelling of Egito. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)
- Eye dialect spelling of Egito, representing Portugal Portuguese.
Usage notes
This form was superseded by the 1990 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, but it's still used in Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈxibto/ [eˈxiβ̞.t̪o]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -ibto
- Syllabification: E‧gip‧to
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: Ehipto
Further reading
- “Egipto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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