cuneiform

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Assyrian tablet bearing cuneiform script.

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Etymology

From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.

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Adjective

cuneiform (not comparable)

  1. 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).
  2. 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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Noun

cuneiform (plural cuneiforms)

  2. 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.
  3. (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cunéiforme.

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Adjective

cuneiform m or n (feminine singular cuneiformă, masculine plural cuneiformi, feminine and neuter plural cuneiforme)

  1. cuneiform

Declension

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

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