cuneiform
Assyrian tablet bearing cuneiform script.
Meanings
Adjective
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- Written in the cuneiform writing system.
Noun
- 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.
- A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
Related
Similar words
- cuneiform bone
- precuneiform
- wedge-shaped
- wedgelike
- wedgy
- wedge-writing
Origin
- From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus + fōrma.
Modern English dictionary
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