Assyriac
adjEtymology From Latin Assyriacus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυριακός (Assuriakós).
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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 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:
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- [...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]1887, James E. Ellison, The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream, page 57: