assyr

• ascer, aser, assir

From Proto-Italic *aser, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”). Only attested in Festus. The form assyr seems to be corrupted.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.syr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sir]

assyr n (genitive assyris); third declension

1. (Old Latin) blood

   Synonym: sanguis

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.

• saniēs
• assarātum

• “assyr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assarātum” in volume 2, column 848, line 7 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “assyr”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 58
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 300