Coptic
[kop-tik]
- an Afroasiatic language of Egypt descended from ancient Egyptian, largely extinct as a spoken language since the 16th century but surviving as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church.
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- of or relating to Coptic or the Copts.
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Origin of Coptic
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Contemporary Examples
The fragment is written in Coptic, not Greek, and is not actually from the Bible, as the title would indicate.
He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic.
Pharaonic scenes, Muslim symbols, poetry, and Coptic icons—great vivid murals bloomed onto the walls.
I met him at the Coptic Hospital when I went to visit the Maspero injured.
And Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri accused Coptic Pope Tawadros II of wanting to establish a Coptic state in Egypt.
Historical Examples
A Hollander, might just as well have chanted modern Greek, or Coptic.
Arthur O'LearyCharles James Lever
Among other interesting places they visited was a Coptic church.
Great African TravellersW.H.G. Kingston
It was used, for example, by the early Coptic Christians to supplement tapestry.
Art in NeedleworkLewis F. Day
His translations from the Armenian, Georgian and Coptic were numerous.
Those Coptic dogs, those eaters of carrion, have fled in the night.
Tales of Secret EgyptSax Rohmer
Coptic
- an Afro-Asiatic language, written in the Greek alphabet but descended from ancient Egyptian. It was extinct as a spoken language by about 1600 ad but survives in the Coptic Church
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- of or relating to this language
- of or relating to the Copts
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