Copt

//kɒpt// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the Coptic Church.
  2. 2
    a member of the Coptic Church wordnet
  3. 3
    Any Christian of Egyptian descent. broadly
  4. 4
    an Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of cop form-of, obsolete, participle, past

    "We used to play at "locking up," / When JANE was copt no bribe could save her; / I was the Beak she come before, / And 'twas a month that then I gave her."

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"We used to play at "locking up," / When JANE was copt no bribe could save her; / I was the Beak she come before, / And 'twas a month that then I gave her."

Etymology

Borrowed from French copte, from Arabic قُبْط (qubṭ, “Copts”), from Coptic ⲅⲩⲡⲧⲓⲟⲥ (guptios, “Egyptian”), ⲕⲩⲡⲧⲁⲓⲟⲥ (kuptaios, “Egyptian”), from Late Ancient Greek Αἰγύπτιος (Aigúptios), from earlier Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian Hwt-t:O1-kA:Z1-p:t-H-A40 (ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ, “Egypt; temple of Ptah's ka”). Doublet of Gypsy. More at Egypt.

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