Assyria

Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀸𒋗𒁺𐎹 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”), its original capital.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪɹi.ə/

Assyria

1. A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

• Assyrian

• Babylonia
• Iraq
• Mesopotamia
• Syria

From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀸𒋗𒁺𐎹 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩 (Aššur, “Assur”), its original capital.

Assyria f (genitive Assyriae); first declension

1. Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)

First declension.

• → 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:

  Cyrillic: Асирија

  Latin: Asirija

• → Slovak: Asýria
• → Spanish: Asiria
• → Swahili: Assyrien

• 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

Assyria

1. Assyria

• assyrer
• assyrisk

Assyria

1. Assyria

• assyrar
• assyrisk

Assyria f

1. Obsolete spelling of Assíria (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).