Assyriologie
German, noun/asyʁioloˈɡiː/
Assyriologie is spelled A-S-S-Y-R-I-O-L-O-G-I-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 216,904th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assyriologie is a German feminine noun meaning “Assyriology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wissenschaft und Lehre von den überwiegend in Keilschriftdokumenten überlieferten Sprachen und der Kultur des…”.
What does Assyriologie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineAssyriology
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wissenschaft und Lehre von den überwiegend in Keilschriftdokumenten überlieferten Sprachen und der Kultur des alten, vorhellenistischen Vorderasien. Im engeren Sinne Wissenschaft des Akkadischen (und Sumerischen). In der Regel schließt sie die Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte nicht mit ein.
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Assyriologie?
- /asyʁioloˈɡiː/
- [ʔasyʁioloˈɡiː]
- [asyʁioloˈɡiː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Assyriologie in German?
Assyriologie appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).