assyriac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I feel, on the whole, great confidence in this being the genuine Assyriac numeral for "three," [...]"
- "[...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]"
- "[...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language."
Etymology
From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Assyriacus, Ἀσσυριακός
Inflected Forms
more Assyriac (comparative)
most Assyriac (superlative)