Semitic

sem-it′ik, adj. pertaining to the Semites , or supposed descendants of Shem, or their language, customs, .—also Shemit′ic .— ns. Sem′ite ; Semitisā′tion .— v.t. Sem′itise , to render Semitic in language or religion.— ns. Sem′itism , a Semitic idiom; Sem′itist , a Hebrew scholar.— Semitic languages , A yrian, Aramean, Hebrew, Phœnician, together with Arabic and Ethiopic. [Applied by J. G. Eichhorn in 1817 to the closely allied peoples represented in Gen. x. as descended from Shem .]