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noun
An Ancient Egyptian priest responsible for pouring libations of water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: Egyptology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
Calque of Egyptian sqbb (“libator”), participle of sqbb (“to cool, to libate with water”), by way of Ancient Greek σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”) suffixed with -ist.
