sinaitic

HYPHEN

Si=na=it=ic

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sinaitic, a. [From Mount Sinai.].

Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law. [1913 Webster]

Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sinaitic, adj. of or relating to Mount Sinai or of the Sinai peninsula.

Etymology

var. of Sinaic f. Sinai f. Heb. sinay, with t added for euphony