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Meroitic

Meroitic adjective: describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written. Also the ellipsis of Meroitic script.

Adjective

Meroitic (not comparable)

  1. Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.
  2. Pertaining to Meroe, or its kingdom, or the era of Meroe's dominance of Kush (Nubia)

Also used as

Meroitic is also the ellipsis of Meroitic script.

Meroitic is also the ellipsis of Meroitic language.

Forms of Meroitic

alternative formMeroic
alternative formMerotic

Origin of Meroitic

From Meroite + -ic.

Questions about Meroitic

What does Meroitic mean?
Meroitic means describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.
What part of speech is Meroitic?
Meroitic is an adjective.

Words near Meroitic in the dictionary

  1. meroi
  2. meroic
  3. meroir
  4. meroism
  5. meroistic
  6. Meroitic
  7. Meroiticist
  8. Meroiticists
  9. merokarst
  10. merokarstic
  11. merokarsts

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