different between wedgelike vs cuneiform

English

Alternative forms

• wedge-like

Etymology

wedge +? -like

Adjective

wedgelike (comparative more wedgelike, superlative most wedgelike)

1. Shaped like a wedge.

Synonyms

• cuneiform
• wedgy

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• cuniform

Etymology

From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneif?rmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + f?rma.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kju?.n?.f??m/, /?kju?.ni.?.f??m/, /kj??ne?.?.f??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kju??ni.?.f??m/

Adjective

cuneiform (not comparable)

1. Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
2. Written in the cuneiform writing system.

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Noun

cuneiform (plural cuneiforms)

1. 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 clayen tablets.
2. (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

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See also

• Akkadian, Accadian
• Old Persian
• Ugaritic

Romanian

Etymology

From French cunéiforme

Adjective

cuneiform m or n (feminine singular cuneiform?, masculine plural cuneiformi, feminine and neuter plural cuneiforme)

1. cuneiform

Declension