Egyptian vs Canicular - What's the difference?
egyptian | canicular |
Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
(obsolete) A gypsy.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
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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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
(-)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
