Definitions for Semitics

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Semitics Se·mit·ics

Spelling: [suh-mit-iks]

IPA: /səˈmɪt ɪks/

Semitics is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in Semitics (ceiimsst).

Definitions for Semitics

noun

1. the study of Semitic languages, literature, etc.
2. a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Semites or their languages, especially of or pertaining to the Jews.

Origin of Semitics

1870-75, Americanism; see Semitic, -ics

Examples for Semitics

After having occupied for twenty years the chair of Semitics at the university of Leipzig, he retired to Prostnitz.

Sufficient evidence goes to show that they worshipped many gods in the beginning, as did other Semitics.

They again were probably not Semitics but of the Aryan race.

These Semitics remembered their old allies, now in the desert, and besought them for aid.