cuneiform

IPA: kjˈuniʌfɔrm

An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
(anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

Examples of "cuneiform" in Sentences

What we call cuneiform is essentially a cursive hand.
Insist on keeping your secret cookie recipes written in cuneiform?
The shape of these signs is that of a wedge, hence the name cuneiform (from the Latin cuneus, "a wedge").
(On the "Cyrus Cylinder," the Persian King inscribed in cuneiform the world's first known "Charter of Human Rights.")
Nor must we forget the additional testimony of three clay cylinders of Nebuchadnezzar, inscribed in cuneiform characters, and now in the National Egyptian Museum.
Round-stylus and sharp-stylus writing was gradually replaced by writing using a wedge-shaped stylus (hence the term cuneiform), at first only for logograms, but evolved to include phonetic elements by the