cuneiform

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  1. adjective Wedge-shaped.
  2. adjective Being a character or characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing.
  3. adjective Relating to, composed in, or using such characters.

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  • Some intercommunication with the Assyrians must have taken place This subject is all the more interesting, as the cuneiform element appears to have passed from the Greek inscriptional letters into those of the Romans, and from thence into our own capital letters. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
  • The early scholars on Earth had spent years unraveling the secrets of cuneiform or Linear B; if he didn't want to spend that much time here in this cave he needed to find some way to speed things up. —  EBSCOhost
  • The Cardassians are also possessed of a kind of cuneiform hieroglyphic style of writing which to any but Cardassians is nearly indecipherable. —  Omni: February-March 1993
  • A tablet found there recently is written in cuneiform, the first system of writing, devised by the Sumerians. —  Omni: January 1995
  • Like Egyptian hieroglyphics and Sumerian cuneiform, the signs in the Mayan writing system represent syllables, not individual letters. —  Omni: February 1995
 

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  1. Latin cuneus, wedge + -form.

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  1. Also improperly cuniform; from New Latin cuneiformis, from Latin cuneus, a wedge, + forma, shape.
 

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/kjuˈniɪfɔrm/
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