cuneiform
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkjuː.nɪ.fɔːm/, /ˈkjuː.ni.ɪ.fɔːm/, /kjʊˈneɪ.ɪ.fɔːm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /kjuˈni.ə.fɔɹm/, /ˈkju.nɪ.fɔɹm/
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Adjective[edit]
cuneiform (not comparable)
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- 1889, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, “New Fire Among the Iroquois”, in American Anthropologist, volume 2, page 319:
- About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made.
- 1936, W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy, page 297:
- The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.
- 1952, Aileen Fox, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): Excavations in the War-damaged Areas, 1945-1947, page 69:
- The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P., p. 241).
- Written in the cuneiform writing system.
- 1911, Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, The Antiquity of Hebrew Writing and Literature, page 182:
- There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.
- 2000, Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, page ix:
- The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical cuneiform text.
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Translations[edit]
having the form of a wedge
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written in the cuneiform writing system
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Noun[edit]
cuneiform (plural cuneiforms)
- An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
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Translations[edit]
ancient writing system
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wedge-shaped bone
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See also[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French cunéiforme.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cuneiform m or n (feminine singular cuneiformă, masculine plural cuneiformi, feminine and neuter plural cuneiforme)
Declension[edit]
Declension of cuneiform
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | cuneiform | cuneiformă | cuneiformi | cuneiforme | ||
| definite | cuneiformul | cuneiforma | cuneiformii | cuneiformele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | cuneiform | cuneiforme | cuneiformi | cuneiforme | ||
| definite | cuneiformului | cuneiformei | cuneiformilor | cuneiformelor | |||
Further reading[edit]
- cuneiform in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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