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ALL meanings of coptic

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  • adjective coptic Coptic means belonging or relating to a part of the Christian Church which was started in Egypt. 3
  • noun coptic an Afro-Asiatic language, written in the Greek alphabet but descended from ancient Egyptian. It was extinct as a spoken language by about 1600 ad but survives in the Coptic Church 3
  • adjective coptic of or relating to this language 3
  • adjective coptic of or relating to the Copts 3
  • noun coptic the Afroasiatic language of the Copts, derived from ancient Egyptian and attested from the 3d cent. a.d.: now used only in the ritual of the Coptic Church 3
  • adjective coptic of the Copts or their language or culture 3
  • adjective coptic of the Coptic Church 3
  • noun coptic an Afroasiatic language of Egypt descended from ancient Egyptian, largely extinct as a spoken language since the 16th century but surviving as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church. 1
  • adjective coptic of or relating to Coptic or the Copts. 1
  • noun coptic The Coptic language of Egypt. 0
  • adjective coptic Of or pertaining to the Copts, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or to the Coptic language. 0
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