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Egyptian vs Canicular - What's the difference?

egyptian | canicular |

As adjectives the difference between egyptian and canicular

is that egyptian is of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language while canicular is of or pertaining to the dog days.

As a noun Egyptian

is a person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.

As a proper noun Egyptian

is the Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.

egyptian

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  • (obsolete) A gypsy.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
  • The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians , or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.

    Derived terms

    * walk like an Egyptian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.
  • Derived terms

    * Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thorn

    canicular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the dog days
  • Of or pertaining to the ancient Egyptian cycle of 1460 years, or the year from one rising of Sirius to the next
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