1670s, "wedge shaped," from French cunéiforme (16c.), from Latin cuneus "a wedge, wedge-shaped thing," which is of unknown origin, + French -forme (see form (n.)). Applied to chara [..]

written language made up of different collections of wedge or triangle shapes.

The first system of writing in human history, developed in ancient Mesopotamia, which used a reed to impress wedge-shaped marks onto the surface of clay tablets.

From the Latin cuneus ("wedge") and forma ("shape" or "form"), referring to the pictographic characters used in ancient Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Sumer [..]

A writing system invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia. It was often inscribed on damp clay tablets using a wedge-shaped stylus. Cuneiform means "wedge writing" in Latin.

  A system of writing developed in Sumer and used for a number of Near Eastern languages, from ca. 3000 BCE until ca. 100 CE. Cuneiform consisted of wedge‑shaped characters inscribed on clay, stone, w [..]

(n) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia(adj) shaped like a wedge(adj) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)

Three cuneiform bones are present in the foot: the medial cuneiform, the intermediate cuneiform and the lateral cuneiform. These are of primary importance in injuries to the tarsometatarsal joint or Lisfranc injuries.

A style of wedge-shaped writing common in the Middle East which pre-dated letters by 1500 years. Writing was scribed into soft clay using a specially shaped tool.

an early form of recordation (writing) used in Mesopotamia from the third to the first millennium BC, consisting of symbols carved into clay using a reed tool

Wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia for writing on clay tablets

A wedge-shaped character writing on clay tablets of antiquity in the times of Persia and Mesopotamia.

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