1831 Athenæum 3 Dec. 787/3 All..were obviously of Arabian or Egypto-Caucasian extraction.
1870 P. B. Randolph Seership! (1884) 73Nor do I see any reason why the white women of Western Europe..should not be as..successful..as their Arabian and Egypto-Syriac sisters.
1879 Chambers's Jrnl. 174/2The Egypto-Syrian forces.
1884 Illustr. Lond. News 9 Feb. 130/1Peace had been completely restored on the Egypto-Abyssinian frontier.
1893 F. Adams New Egypt 16Even these fanatical Egypto-Turks,..even these degraded Egypto-Arabs.
1909 Webster s.v. Saracenic,The square or polygonal minarets in diminishing stories of the Arabic or Egypto-Arabic style.
1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men iv. 52The diffusion of the Egypto-Semitic wordcraft.
ORIGIN: from Greek Aiguptos Egypt: see -o- .
Egypto-
Prefix
- Egypt
- Egypto-Coptic grammar