"metropolis" or "civilization" and also means "country", or "frontier-land". The English name Egypt was borrowed from Middle French Egypte , from Latin Aegyptus , from ancient Greek Aígyptos ( Αἴγυπτος ), from earlier Linear B a-ku-pi-ti-yo . The adjective aigýpti-, aigýptios was borrowed into Coptic as gyptios, kyptios , and from there