of Accad or its inhabitants; of Accadian, of the language spoken in Accad
resident of Accad (northern division of ancient Babylonia)
Semitic language of ancient Assyria and Babylonia (also Akkadian)
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Accadian Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
accadian
\ac*ca"di*an\ (&?;), a. [from the city accad. see gen. x. 10.] pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in babylonia before the assyrian conquest. -- ac*ca"di*an, n., ac"cad (&?;), n.
Accadian Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum, 𒀝𒂵𒌈 ak.kADû) (also Accadian, Assyro-Babylonian) is an extinct Semitic language (part of the greater Afroasiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system, which was originally used to write ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate. The name of the language is derived from the city of Akkad, a major center of Semitic Mesopotamian civilization, during the Akkadian Empire (2334 - 2154 BC), although the language predates the founding of Akkad.
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