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Ethiopic

Ethiopic adjective: ethiopian.

Adjective

Ethiopic (comparative more Ethiopic, superlative most Ethiopic)

  1. (archaic) Ethiopian

Proper noun

Ethiopic

  1. The Ge'ez language.
    • This book has been preserved in Greek, Ethiopic, Armenian and Slavonic.1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, Volume 2

Forms of Ethiopic

comparativemore Ethiopic
superlativemost Ethiopic
alternative formÆthiopic

Origin of Ethiopic

From Latin aethiopicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπικός (Aithiopikós). By surface analysis, Ethiop + -ic.

Questions about Ethiopic

What does Ethiopic mean?
Ethiopic means ethiopian.
What part of speech is Ethiopic?
Ethiopic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Ethiopic in the dictionary

  1. Ethiopianizes
  2. Ethiopianizing
  3. Ethiopianness
  4. Ethiopians
  5. Ethiopians in the woodpile
  6. Ethiopic
  7. Ethiopid
  8. Ethiopist
  9. Ethiopists
  10. ethiops
  11. Ethiosemitic

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