Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- the eastern Semitic language, now extinct, of Assyria and Babylonia, written with a cuneiform script.
- one of the Akkadian people.
- Obsolete. Sumerian.
adjective
- of or belonging to Akkad.
- of or relating to the eastern Semitic language called Akkadian.
- Obsolete. Sumerian.
noun
- a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc
- the extinct language of this people, belonging to the E Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family
adjective
- of or relating to this people or their language
1855, from Akkad (Sumerian Agde, Biblical Acca), name of city founded by Sargon I in northern Babylonia, of unknown origin; applied by modern scholars to the east Semitic language spoken there (c.2300-2100 B.C.E.) and preserved in cuneiform inscriptions.