Assyriac

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adjective

Synonym of Assyrian

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Meanings

adjectiveAssyriac (comparative more Assyriac, superlative most Assyriac)

comparative more Assyriac · superlative most Assyriac

  1. Synonym of Assyrian

    [...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]

    1887, James E. Ellison, The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream, page 57
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    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.

    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
  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 & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Ancient GreekἈσσυριακός
  2. LatinAssyriacus
  3. EnglishAssyriac

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

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Assyriac. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Assyriac

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