Assyria

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Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital. Doublet of Syria.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪɹi.ə/
• Hyphenation: As‧syr‧ia
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Assyria

1. 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.

• Assyrian

• Babylonia
• Iraq
• Mesopotamia
• Syria

Ultimately from Latin Assyria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːy(ː)riɑ/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ːy(ː)ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): As‧sy‧ri‧a

Assyria

1. Assyria (Semitic Akkadian kingdom)

From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /asˈsy.ri.a/, [äs̠ˈs̠ʏriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /asˈsi.ri.a/, [äsˈsiːriä]

Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension

1. Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “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^[1]
• “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

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1. Assyria

• assyrer
• assyrisk

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1. Assyria

• assyrar
• assyrisk

Assyria f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Assíria.