Egyptiac

[ ih-jip-tee-ak ]

adjective

1. of or relating to ancient Egypt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Egyptiac¹

1630–40; < Latin Aegyptiacus < Greek aigyptiakós, equivalent to aigýpti ( os ) Egyptian, derivative of Aígyptos the Nile, Egypt + -akos -ac

Example Sentences

Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time�the Egyptiac civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the debris on the ledges are the bodies of the Sumeric, Babylonic, Egyptiac, Hellenic, Mexic and eleven other extinct societies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hor� Egyptiac�, or the Chronology of Ancient Egypt discovered from Astronomical and Hieroglyphical Records, including many dates found in coeval inscriptions from the period of the building of the great Pyramid to the times of the Persians, and illustrative of the History of the first Nineteen Dynasties, &c., by Reginald Stuart Poole, is the ample title of a work dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland, under whose auspices it has been produced.

From Project Gutenberg