spdt
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See also: SPDT
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From spd (“to be sharp”) + -t (feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛpɛdɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: sepedet
Noun
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Noun
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Inflection
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈsaptʼat/ → /ˈsaptʼaʔ/ → /ˈsaptʼa/ → /ˈsaptʼə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛpdɛt/, /sopdɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: sepdet, sopdet
Proper noun
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- (astronomy) Sirius, A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky.
- Sothis, the divine personification of Sirius
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of spdt
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Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN