Meanings
comparative more Assyriac · superlative most Assyriac
- Synonym of Assyrian
[...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]
1887, James E. Ellison, The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream, page 572 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.
1801, Joseph Hager, A Dissertation on the Newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions, London, page 61I feel, on the whole, great confidence in this being the genuine Assyriac numeral for "three," [...]
1859, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, page 41Synonyms: Assyrian
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of Assyrian
proper nounSynonym of Assyrian
Origin
- Ancient GreekἈσσυριακός
- LatinAssyriacus
- EnglishAssyriac
From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).
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