Assyria
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɪɹi.ə/
- Hyphenation: As‧syr‧ia
- Rhymes: -ɪɹiə
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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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑsːy(ː)riɑ/, [ˈɑs̠ːy(ː)ˌriɑ]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): as‧sy‧ri‧a
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 | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Assyriatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Assyria (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Assyriani | Assyriamme |
| 2nd person | Assyriasi | Assyrianne |
| 3rd person | Assyriansa | |
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
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
- Tok Pisin: Asiria
- → Hawaiian: ʻAkulia
- → 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
Portuguese
Proper noun
Assyria f
- Obsolete spelling of Assíria (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).
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