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say it: KAHP-tik
coptic is a noun and adjective meaning "the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the liturgical language of the Coptic Church used in Egypt and Ethiopia; written in the Greek alphabet
of or relating to the Copts or their church or language or art
“the distinctive Coptic art of 6th-century Christian Egypt”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coptic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.