Assyriac

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

Assyriac (comparative more Assyriac, superlative most Assyriac)

  1. Synonym of Assyrian
    • 1801, Joseph Hager, A Dissertation on the Newly Discovered Babylonian Inscriptions‎[1], London, page 61:
      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.
    • 1859, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy‎[2], page 41:
      I feel, on the whole, great confidence in this being the genuine Assyriac numeral for "three," [...]
    • 1887, James E. Ellison, The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream‎[3], page 57:
      [...] the Assyriac stranger said: [...]

Proper noun

Assyriac

  1. Synonym of Assyrian
    • 1859, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy‎[4], page 41:
      [...] but I can compare it with nothing else either in Assyriac or in any other language.
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