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Copt|kɒpt|
In 7–8 Coptie, Copht(e, -tie.
[Cf. F. copte, mod.L. Coptus, Cophtus ad. Arab. quft, qift collective, ‘the Copts’, with relative adj. quftī, qiftī Coptic, also qubt, qibt with relative adj. qubtī, qibtī, most prob. ad. Coptic gyptios, kyptaios, repr. Gr. αἰγύπτιος Egyptian. The Arabic u is in some places pronounced o, and Arabic having no p is obliged to substitute f or b: to the former is owing the early Cophtus.
Some have referred the name to Coptos, an ancient city of Upper Egypt, and it is possible that this notion has tended to make Copt the settled form.]
A native Egyptian Christian belonging to the Jacobite sect of Monophysites.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 109 Of Christians, the natiue Copties are the most in number. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 72 They are termed Cophtes: these are the true Egyptians. 1723R. Millar Propagat. Chr. II. viii. 368 Turks and Arabians, Christian Greeks and Cophtes. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. iii. 25 Copties, who are circumcised Christians. 1849Lane Mod. Egypt. II. 311 The Copts, at present, compose less than one fourteenth part of the population of Egypt.
b. attrib. or adj.
1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. (1646) 99 The Copt Language. 1849Lane Mod. Egypt. II. 314 The Copt women veil their faces..when any men, excepting their near relations, are present. |