Definition of Semitec
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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