cuneal /kūˈni-əl/ or cuneate /kūˈni-āt/ adjective Wedge-shaped ORIGIN: L cuneus a wedge cuneatˈic adjective Cuneiform cuneiform /kū-nēˈi-förm or kūˈni(-i)-förm/ adjective Wedge-shaped, usu applied to the old Hittite, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian writing, of which the characters were impressed by the wedge-shaped facets of a stylus noun Cuneiform writing cuneiform bones plural noun (anatomy) (in the foot) three small bones of the tarsus |