two ladies name
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The second of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by or incorporating the word nbtj.
Example Sentences
- "The Two Ladies name (nebty) identifies the king with the vulture goddess Nekhbet and the cobra goddess Wadjet, representing Upper and Lower Egypt respectively."
- "The fourth king of the line, Senusret II, held a Two Ladies name in which for the first time the Two Ladies cannot be part of the name and must then be a title."
- "Some of the kings repeated part of their Horus name in their Two Ladies name, indicating that, at this time, the titulary essentially remained an elaboration of a single concept."
Etymology
From Two Ladies + name, where Two Ladies refers to the word nbtj that traditionally precedes the name.