Assyriac
adj, name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of Assyrian
"5th, That the same, also, were the Chaldaic characters with which, according to Athenæus, the epitaphium of Sardanapalus, at Nineveh, was engraved; the Assyriac characters mentioned by Herodotus, Diodorus, Polyænus, and other ancient authors, rather than the square Chaldaic now in use among the Jews; or the Samaritan, the Estranghelo, and other alphabetic letters."
- 1 Synonym of Assyrian
"[...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language."
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More examples"5th, That the same, also, were the Chaldaic characters with which, according to Athenæus, the epitaphium of Sardanapalus, at Nineveh, was engraved; the Assyriac characters mentioned by Herodotus, Diodorus, Polyænus, and other ancient authors, rather than the square Chaldaic now in use among the Jews; or the Samaritan, the Estranghelo, and other alphabetic letters."
Etymology
From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).
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