spdt
See also: SPDT
Egyptian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From spd (“to be sharp”) + -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛpɛdɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: sepedet
Noun edit
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Inflection edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈsaptʼat/ → /ˈsaptʼaʔ/ → /ˈsaptʼa/ → /ˈsaptʼə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛpdɛt/, /sopdɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: sepdet, sopdet
Proper noun edit
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- (astronomy) Sirius, A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky.
- Sothis, the divine personification of Sirius
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of spdt
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spdt | spdt |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Ancient Greek: Σῶθις (Sôthis)
References edit
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN