cuneiform
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
cuneiform (not comparable)
- Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
- Written in the cuneiform#Noun|cuneiform writing system.
- German: keilförmig
- Russian: клинови́дный
- French: cunéiforme
- German: keilschriftlich
- Italian: cuneiforme
- Russian: клинопи́сный
- Spanish: cuneiforme
cuneiform (plural cuneiforms)
- 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 clay tablets.
- (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.
- French: cunéiforme
- German: Keilschrift
- Portuguese: cuneiforme
- Russian: кли́нопись
- Spanish: escritura cuneiforme
- French: os cunéiforme
- Portuguese: cuneiforme
- Russian: клинови́дная кость
- Spanish: (hueso) cuneiforme
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