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Sem*it"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.]

Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phœnician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic).Encyc. Brit.

Sem*it"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.]

Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phœnician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic).Encyc. Brit.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • Relating to a subdivision of Afro-Asiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian (Syriac), Babylonian (Akkadian), Israeli (Hebrew), Maltese, Tigrigna, et al.
  • Relating to the Semites: Semitic people.
  • Relating (biblically) to descendants of Shem, the eldest of three sons of Noah.
  • Relating (more narrowly) to the Israeli, Jewish, or Hebrew people.
  • The Semitic languages in general.
  • The study of the Semitic languages, cultures and peoples.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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