Assyria
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital. Doublet of Syria.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Assyria
- A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant from the mid-23rd century BC to 608 BC and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), which came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.
Derived terms
Translations
Semitic Akkadian kingdom
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See also
Finnish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Assyria.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Assyria
- Assyria (Semitic Akkadian kingdom)
Declension
| Inflection of Assyria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Assyria | — | |
| genitive | Assyrian | — | |
| partitive | Assyriaa | — | |
| illative | Assyriaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Assyria | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Assyria | — |
| gen. | Assyrian | ||
| genitive | Assyrian | — | |
| partitive | Assyriaa | — | |
| inessive | Assyriassa | — | |
| elative | Assyriasta | — | |
| illative | Assyriaan | — | |
| adessive | Assyrialla | — | |
| ablative | Assyrialta | — | |
| allative | Assyrialle | — | |
| essive | Assyriana | — | |
| translative | Assyriaksi | — | |
| abessive | Assyriatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /asˈsy.ri.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈsi.ri.a/,
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
- → Ukrainian: Асси́рія (Assýrija)
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
- “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
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Assíria.