Assyria
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Assyria
- A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant from the mid-23rd century BC to 608 BC and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), which came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Semitic Akkadian kingdom
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See alsoEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Latin Assyria.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Assyria
- Assyria (Semitic Accadian kingdom)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of Assyria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Assyria | — | ||
genitive | Assyrian | — | ||
partitive | Assyriaa | — | ||
illative | Assyriaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Assyria | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Assyria | — | |
gen. | Assyrian | |||
genitive | Assyrian | — | ||
partitive | Assyriaa | — | ||
inessive | Assyriassa | — | ||
elative | Assyriasta | — | ||
illative | Assyriaan | — | ||
adessive | Assyrialla | — | ||
ablative | Assyrialta | — | ||
allative | Assyrialle | — | ||
essive | Assyriana | — | ||
translative | Assyriaksi | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
abessive | Assyriatta | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived termsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /asˈsy.ri.a/, [äs̠ˈs̠ʏriä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈsi.ri.a/, [äsˈsiːriä]
Proper nounEdit
Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension
- Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Assyria |
Genitive | Assyriae |
Dative | Assyriae |
Accusative | Assyriam |
Ablative | Assyriā |
Vocative | Assyria |
DescendantsEdit
- → Catalan: Assíria
- → Czech: Asýrie
- → Danish: Assyrien
- → Dutch: Assyrië
- → English: Assyria
- → Finnish: Assyria
- → French: Assyrie
- → German: Assyrien
- → Hungarian: Asszíria
- → Irish: Aisiria
- → Italian: Assiria
- → Japanese: アッシリア (Asshiria)
- → Polish: Asyria
- → Portuguese: Assíria
- → Russian: Ассирия (Assirija)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: Asýria
- → Spanish: Asiria
- → Swahili: Assyrien
- → Ukrainian: Асси́рія (Assýrija)
ReferencesEdit
- “Assyria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Assyria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “Assyria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “Assyria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Assyria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Proper nounEdit
Assyria
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
Proper nounEdit
Assyria
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PortugueseEdit
Proper nounEdit
Assyria f
- Obsolete spelling of Assíria (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).