Egyptian vs Hieracosphinx - What's the difference?
egyptian | hieracosphinx |
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:
A mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry, being a lion with the head of a falcon.
As nouns the difference between egyptian and hieracosphinx
is that egyptian is a person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent while hieracosphinx is a mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry, being a lion with the head of a falcon.As an adjective Egyptian
is of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.As a proper noun Egyptian
is the Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.egyptian
English
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* (archaic)Adjective
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(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.