Assyria
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital. Doublet of Syria.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editAssyria
- (historical) An ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt).
Derived terms
editTranslations
editSemitic Akkadian kingdom
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See also
editFinnish
editEtymology
editUltimately from Latin Assyria.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɑsːy(ː)riɑ/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ːy(ː)ˌriɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): As‧sy‧ri‧a
- Hyphenation(key): As‧sy‧ria
Proper noun
editAssyria
- (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))
Declension
editInflection 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 | — | |
abessive | Assyriatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [asˈsy.ri.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [asˈsiː.ri.a]
Proper noun
editAssyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension
- (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))
Declension
editFirst-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Assyria |
genitive | Assyriae |
dative | Assyriae |
accusative | Assyriam |
ablative | Assyriā |
vocative | Assyria |
Descendants
edit- → 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)
References
edit- “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 Bokmål
editProper noun
editAssyria
- (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))
Related terms
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editProper noun
editAssyria
- (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))
Related terms
editPortuguese
editProper noun
editAssyria f
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Assíria.
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- la:Former polities
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- nb:Former polities
- nb:Places in Iraq
- nb:Places in Iran
- nb:Places in Syria
- nb:Places in Israel
- nb:Places in Palestine
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- nn:Former polities
- nn:Places in Iraq
- nn:Places in Iran
- nn:Places in Syria
- nn:Places in Israel
- nn:Places in Palestine
- nn:Places in Egypt
- nn:Ancient Near East
- nn:Assyria
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