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Synonyms for cuneiform

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kyoo-nee-uh-fawrm, kyoo-nee-uh-
Phonetic Transcription : kyuˈni əˌfɔrm, ˈkyu ni ə-

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Définition of cuneiform

Origin :
  • 1670s, "wedge shaped," from French cunéiforme (16c.), from Latin cuneus "a wedge, wedge-shaped thing," of unknown origin, + French -forme (see form (n.)). Applied to characters in ancient Middle Eastern inscriptions made with wedge-shaped writing tools; first used in this sense by German physician and traveller Engelbert Kämpfer (1681-1716); in English from 1818. As a noun from 1862.
  • As in writing : noun printing on paper
  • As in picture writing : noun expression by pictures
Example sentences :
  • About the universe which I inhabited I knew as little as I did about cuneiform writings.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • Keilschriften, p. 129; and the same author's Cuneiform Inscrip.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • The d of Dagon would be represented by d in cuneiform writing.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • This account of Berosus is now confirmed by the cuneiform records.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • Truly these cuneiform characters were strange and difficult to decipher!
  • Extract from : « Celebrated Travels and Travellers » by Jules Verne
  • The reading of the cuneiform legend offers but little difficulty.
  • Extract from : « The Hittites » by A. H. Sayce
  • The second and third may be most fitly described as cuneiform.
  • Extract from : « The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland » by Daniel Wilson
  • He unfolds, and his cuneiform is seen to be that of a man-headed lion.
  • Extract from : « The Nurserymatograph » by A Lawyer
  • In a vault underneath the building four cuneiform tablets were found.
  • Extract from : « Archology and the Bible » by George A. Barton
  • It may have been practiced in the transcription of the cuneiform tablets.
  • Extract from : « The Reign of the Manuscript » by Perry Wayland Sinks
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