Cuneiform

Adjective

 * 1) Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
 * 2) Written in cuneiform: cuneiform script, cuneiform writing.

Synonyms

 * wedgelike
 * wedgy

Noun

 * 1) 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 clay tablets.
 * 2)  A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

Derived terms

 * cuneiformist

Thesaurus
arrowhead, character, cuneate, cuneated, deltoid, demotic character, determinative, grammalogue, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, ogham, oxygonal, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, radical, rune, shorthand, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, wedge, word letter

Alternative forms

 * cuniform