cuneiform
An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families,…An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BCE, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
» The cuneiform script was used for more than 22 centuries.
Meaning
2 sensesAn ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BCE, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
Keilschrift
кли́нописьklínopisʹ
кли́нописklýnopys
A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
клинови́дная костьklinovídnaja kostʹ
an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
Examples
3 sentencesThe cuneiform script was used for more than 22 centuries.
The cuneiform alphabet invented by the Sumerians was used by many languages in the ancient Near East.
ruКлинопись, изобретённая шумерами, в древности использовалась во многих языках на Ближнем Востоке. — Wezel
It is in the cuneiform records of Babylonia that we catch the first glimpse of the early history of Canaan.
Translations
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Origin
From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fFrom French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.
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