Se·mit·ic 
(sə-mĭtĭk)
(sə-mĭtĭk)adj.
1. Of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures.
2. Of, relating to, or constituting a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.
3. Jewish.
n.
1. The Semitic languages.
2. Any of the Semitic languages.
[New Latin Sēmiticus, from Sēmita, Semite, from Late Latin Sēm, Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Semites, from Greek, from Hebrew Šēm.]