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Ethiopic

Ethiopic comes from Latin aethiopicus ‘Ethiopian, of or pertaining to the Ethiopian…’, and goes back to Ancient Greek Αἰθῐ́οψ.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΑἰθῐ́οψ‘Ethiopian’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEΑἰθιοπικόςAithiopikós‘Ethiopian’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaethiopicus‘Ethiopian, of or pertaining to the Ethiopian people’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1910Ethiopic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΑἰθῐ́οψ‘Ethiopian’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEΑἰθιοπικόςAithiopikós‘Ethiopian’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaethiopicus‘Ethiopian, of or pertaining to the Ethiopian people’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1910Ethiopic

Earliest quotation: 1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts: “This book has been preserved in Greek, Ethiopic, Armenian…”

Equivalent to Ethiop + -ic

Ancient Greek Αἰθίοψ ‘charred complexion’

Latin Aethiops

English Ethiop

Every English word from Ancient Greek Αἰθῐ́οψ

Today it means

adj Ethiopian

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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