Meroitic
adjective
Meroitic is an adjective meaning “Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-R-O-I-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Meroitic mean?
adjective
- 1
Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.
- 2
Pertaining to Meroe, or its kingdom, or the era of Meroe's dominance of Kush (Nubia)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Meroitic
- Meroic
- Merotic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Meroitic?
Meroitic appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Meroitic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense describing the language once used in Meroë:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | méroïtique |
| German | Meroitisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Meroitic come from?
From Meroite + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).