Associations to the word «Aramaic»

Wiktionary

ARAMAIC, proper noun. A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not limited to):
ARAMAIC, adjective. Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.

Dictionary definition

ARAMAIC, noun. A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia.
ARAMAIC, noun. An alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it.
ARAMAIC, adjective. Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope