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Assyriac

adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Assyrian

    "[...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).

Etymology 2

From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).

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