Aramaean

Meanings

Noun

• Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to Aramaeans or Aram.

Proper Noun

• The Aramaic language.

Origin

• From the Latin Aramaeī, from the Ancient Greek Ἀραμαῖοι, from Aram, biblical name of Syria.