English Explanatory Dictionary

Damietta

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town in the Nile delta in Egypt.

Pronunciation

/ˌdæmiːˈɛtə/ /ˌdæmiːˈjɛtə/ /ˌdæmɪˈɛtə/

Word forms

Damietta Dalmietta

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Damietta, from the medieval pronunciation /dɑmˈjɑdi/ of Coptic ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ (Tamiati) with influence from Latin -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), the former sometimes hypothesized to be from Egyptian dmjt (“town, harbor”), from Egyptian d-mi-i-N21:Z1 (dmj, “mooring, port; town”) + t (-t, feminine ending).

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