proper noun · femininefirst declension
Assyria
Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae)
Classical[asˈsy.ri.a]Ecclesiastical[asˈsiː.ri.a]
Meaning
- femininehistoricalsingularAssyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Assyria | — |
| genitive | Assyriae | — |
| dative | Assyriae | — |
| accusative | Assyriam | — |
| ablative | Assyriā | — |
| vocative | Assyria | — |
Assўrĭa, ae, f., = Ἀσσυρία,
I. a country of Asia, between Media, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, now Kurdistan, Plin. 5, 12, 13, § 66 al.—Hence, Assўrĭus, a, um, adj., = Ἀσσύριος, Assyrian, Verg. E. 4, 25; Luc. 6, 429; Stat. S. 3, 3, 212 al.; and Assўrĭi, ōrum, m., the Assyrians, Cic. Div. 1, 1, 1; Plin. 6, 13, 16, § 41; Vulg. Gen. 2, 14; ib. Isa. 7, 17 al.—Sometimes poetic for Median, Phrygian, Phœnician, Indian, etc.; so,
puella, i. e. the Phœnician Europa, Sen. Herc. Oet. 554: venenum, i.e., Tyrian purple, Sil. 11, 41: stagnum, i. e. Lake Gennesareth, in Palestine, Just. 18, 3: ebur, i. e. Indian, Ov. Am. 2, 5, 40: malus, i. e. Medica, the citrontree, Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 48; cf. Voss ad Verg. G. 2, 126.Origins
From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.
Elsewhere
- CatalanAssíria
- EnglishAssyria
- GermanAssyrien
- ItalianAssiria
- FrenchAssyriefrom Middle French Assyrie
- PortugueseAssíria
- SpanishAsiria
- CzechAsýrie
- DanishAssyrien
- DutchAssyrië
Serbo-Croatian
- Cyrillic scriptАсирија
- Latin scriptAsirija