The corpus record — Latin

Aegyptius

Aegyptius · adj

Egyptian

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1 · 84.03/10k
Chabrias 4 · 81.8/10k
Ab urbe condita, fragments 1 · 47.62/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 11 · 47.52/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Divus Claudius 6 · 20.22/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Octavius 10 · 8.62/10k
Divus Vespasianus 2 · 6.25/10k
Tyranni Triginta 4 · 6.07/10k
Ad Nationes 9 · 6.02/10k
Datames 1 · 5.49/10k

Densest 12 of 106 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aegyptĭus — Lewis & Short

Aegyptĭus, a, um, adj., = *ai)gu/ptios,

I Egyptian (the class. word for the later Aegyptiacus in Gell., Plin., and Treb.): rex, Cic. Pis. 21: acetum, a superior kind of vinegar, id. Hortens. ap. Non.: bellum, Nep. Dat. 3: litus, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 142: mare, id. 5, 9, 10, § 54: classes, Suet. Caes. 39: vir, Vulg. Gen. 39, 1: ancilla, ib. ib. 16, 1; ib. Act. 21, 38 al.—Hence,

II Subst.: Aegyptĭus, ii, m., an Egyptian: quid igitur censes? Apim illum sanctum Aegyptiorum bovem, nonne deum videri Aegyptiis? Cic. N. D. 1, 29; id. Rep. 3, 9; Caes. B. C. 3, 110; Vulg. Exod. 2, 14; ib. Act. 7. 22 al.

In the wild

Aegyptiis Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.45.12.2
Aegypti Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.148
Aegypti Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p4
Aegyptii Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.1.p11
Aegyptiis Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.8
Aegyptii Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.5.14

6 of 497 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.