Assyria
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀸𒋗𒁺𐎹 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Assyria
- A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.
Derived terms
Translations
Semitic Akkadian kingdom
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See also
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀸𒋗𒁺𐎹 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”), its original capital.
Proper noun
Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension
- Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Assyria |
Genitive | Assyriae |
Dative | Assyriae |
Accusative | Assyriam |
Ablative | Assyriā |
Vocative | Assyria |
Descendants
- → 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
References
- “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
Proper noun
Assyria
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Assyria
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Assyria f
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- la:Assyria
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