syllabarium

American  

[sil-uh-bair-ee-uhm] / ˌsɪl əˈbɛər i əm /

noun

syllabaria plural

1. syllabary.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• syllabaria
  plural

Etymology

Origin of syllabarium

From New Latin; see origin at syllabary

Example Sentences

The highly complicated syllabarium of the Eastern Semites is reduced to a phonetic system; we might almost say to an alphabet of about 40 letters.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Like Doala, too, he had a language adapted to a syllabarium.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Discarding then the Assyrian notion of a syllabarium, with the enormous complication which it involves, the Medes strove to reduce sounds to their ultimate elements, and to represent these last alone by symbols.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George