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- Egyptian · derived fromwsr-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ
- Demotic Egyptian · derived fromwsr-mꜣꜥ.t-rꜥ
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὈσυμανδύας
- English todayOzymandias
From Ancient Greek Ὀσυμανδύας (Osumandúas), from Demotic Egyptian wsr-mꜣꜥ.t-rꜥ, smn-rꜥ, ns-mn-rꜥ, from Egyptian wsr-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ, the first part of the throne name of pharaoh Ramesses II. Modern usage derives from the poem Ozymandias, about a proud king whose empire and memory have long since crumbled into obscurity, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and inspired by Diodorus Siculus's description of a colossal statue in the Ramesseum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.