cuneiform — as an adjective, it means “having the shape of a wedge” or “composed of wedge-shaped characters,” and as a noun, this word is usually used to refer to the ancient Sumerian system of writing that used wedge-shaped characters (see photo)
cuneiforme — the Spanish cognate of the same meanings and uses
When I taught my Linguistics class, we would l…
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