Assyria
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital. Doublet of Syria.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]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 terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Semitic Akkadian kingdom
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See also
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin Assyria.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Assyria
- Assyria (Semitic Akkadian kingdom)
Declension
[edit]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 | — | |
abessive | Assyriatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /asˈsy.ri.a/, [äs̠ˈs̠ʏriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈsi.ri.a/, [äsˈsiːriä]
Proper noun
[edit]Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension
- Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
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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
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Assyria
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]Assyria
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[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Assyria f
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Assíria.
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- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Akkadian
- English doublets
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə
- Rhymes:English/ɪɹiə/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms suffixed with -ia
- en:Assyria
- en:Historical polities
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑ/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Akkadian
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin terms spelled with Y
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Assyria
- la:Historical polities
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese forms superseded in 1943
- Portuguese forms superseded in 1911