lapidarian
- adjective
- /ˌlæpɪˈdɛəriən/
- Specialized
- The ancient temple's walls bore a lapidarian inscription honoring the gods.
Examples
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Scholars studied the lapidarian records to reconstruct the city's lost history.
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The lapidarian texts were difficult to translate.
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Only a few surviving documents from that era exist, most of them lapidarian in nature.
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This is a lapidarian inscription.
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The ancient temple's walls bore a lapidarian inscription honoring the gods.
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Only a few surviving documents from that era exist, most of them lapidarian in nature.
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Scholars studied the lapidarian records to reconstruct the city's lost history.
Synonyms
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5.1
Written or carved on a surface like a stone
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9.5
About the study of writing carved on stone or metal, often on monuments
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8.4
About words carved or written on a hard surface
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9.2
Relating to writing carved on stone, for example on a monument or building
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lapidarian comes from the Latin root lapis meaning 'stone' and shares that root with lapidary, a word for working with or cutting stones. So lapidarian describes writing or records that are literally 'on stone'.