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Assyriac

Assyriac adjective: synonym of Assyrian.

Adjective

Assyriac (comparative more Assyriac, superlative most Assyriac)

  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...1801, Joseph Hager, A Dissertation on the Newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions, London, page 61
    • I feel, on the whole, great confidence in this being the genuine Assyriac numeral for "three," [...]1859, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, page 41
    Synonyms:
    Assyrian

Proper noun

Assyriac

  1. Synonym of Assyrian
    • [...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language.1859, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, page 41
    Synonyms:
    Assyrian

Synonyms of Assyriac

Forms of Assyriac

comparativemore Assyriac
superlativemost Assyriac

Origin of Assyriac

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

Questions about Assyriac

What does Assyriac mean?
Assyriac means synonym of Assyrian.
What part of speech is Assyriac?
Assyriac can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Assyriac in the dictionary

  1. assymetrical
  2. Assynt
  3. Assyr
  4. Assyr.
  5. Assyria
  6. Assyriac
  7. Assyrian
  8. Assyrian Church of the East
  9. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
  10. Assyrian plum
  11. Assyrian plums

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