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Definition: Coptic |
CopticAdjective1. Of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art; "the distinctive Coptic art of 6th-century Christian Egypt". Noun1. The liturgical language of the Coptic Church of Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Coptic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
"Coptic" is a common misspelling or typo for: optic. |
Crosswords: Coptic |
| English words defined with "Coptic": Abba ♦ Copt ♦ Haikal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Coptic": ankn, ankn cross ♦ crux ansata ♦ O'asis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Coptic": Copts. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Praetor-Urbanus;" - Inauguration of the Coptic Mayor of Cairo, preceded by the Procureur de la Commune / Etched by Js. Gillray. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | Between May and July, with police assistance, the Coptic Church also reclaimed several properties from private institutions after legal victories. (references) |
Egypt | During the year, the Government also donated three parcels of land for construction of new churches (2 Coptic Orthodox and one Protestant), which represented a significant change in government practice regarding church construction. (references) | |
Kuwait | The Roman Catholic, Anglican, National Evangelical, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, and Greek Catholic Churches are able to operate freely on their compounds, holding worship services without government interference. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Religions: Sunni Muslim 90%, Coptic Christian. (references) |
Egypt | Although a Coptic Christian minority remained--and remains today, constituting about 10% of the population--the Arab language inexorably supplanted the indigenous Coptic tongue. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | On September 19, a State Security Emergency Court found Mamdouh Mahran, editor in chief of two tabloid publications, guilty of propagating false information with the aim of inciting sectarian strife and insulting a heavenly religion, for an article he published regarding alleged sexual misconduct in a Coptic Christian monastery. (references) |
Minorities | Egypt | However, if a Christian woman marries a Muslim man the Coptic Orthodox Church excommunicates her. (references) |
Egypt | The approximately 6 million Coptic Christians have been the objects of occasional violent assaults by the Islamic Group and other terrorists. (references) | |
Egypt | The retrial opened November 3, and the next session was scheduled for January 2002. There were reports of forced conversions of Coptic girls to Islam. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Approximately 500,000 Coptic Christians live in the north. (references) |
Egypt | The investigation that the Public Prosecutor reopened and expanded in 1999 regarding police brutality and torture during a 1998 police investigation of a double murder in the largely Coptic village of al-Kush in Sohag governorate, continued without resolution throughout the year. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | Sham El Nessim changes with Coptic calendar. (references) |
Women | Egypt | Government ministers speak out against the practice, and senior religious leaders also support efforts to stop it. The Sheikh of al-Azhar, the most senior Islamic figure in the country, and Pope Shenouda, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox community, have stated repeatedly that FGM is not required by religious doctrine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Coptic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Coptic" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.67% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 48 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Coptic": Coptic Church. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Coptic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коптски език, коптски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 科普特人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koptický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | koptisk syge (coptic disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maladie des momies coptes (coptic disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | koptisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kopt nyelv, kopt (copt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コプト教会 (Coponicus, coprocessor, Coptic Church, Kopernikus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コプトきょうかい (Coptic Church). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opticcay copto (copt), cóptico, língua cóptica. (various references) коптский. (various references) koptski jezik, koptski. (various references) copto (copt). (various references) koptisk. (various references) коптський. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Coptic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccpit, Ciftci, Comtec, copti, Coptock, Coptos, Costica, Cotac, Cpti, Cupchik, Kopitz, Kotick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Coptic" (pronounced 'Cop"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: optic, picot, topic. | |
-2 letters: otic, topi. | |
-3 letters: cop, cot, opt, pic, pit, poi, pot, tic, tip, top. | |
-4 letters: it, op, pi, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: cockpit, ectopic, occiput. | |
+2 letters: cockpits, coscript, ecotypic, occipita, occiputs, pycnotic, scotopic, spiccato. | |
+3 letters: apodictic, apomictic, capacitor, catoptric, chopstick, cocaptain, complicit, conscript, copacetic, copasetic, copesetic, coscripts, occipital, pasticcio, pinocytic, precocity, proclitic, psychotic, spiccatos. | |
+4 letters: apodeictic, apoplectic, capacitors, cataphoric, checkpoint, chopsticks, cocaptains, compacting, compaction, complicate, complicity, conception, conceptive, conscripts, coprolitic, coscripted, cuckoopint, cytopathic, cytophilic, hypotactic, occipitals, occupation, pasticcios, phagocytic, piccoloist, pickpocket, polycystic, premycotic, proclitics, procryptic, psychotics, telescopic. | |
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