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Nebuchadnezzar

ne·buc·had·nezzar

UK/ˌnɛbjʊkədˈnɛzə/ US/ˌnɛbəkədˈnɛzɚ/ rare

noun

1.

(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)

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2.

a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display

Origin

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár), a corruption of earlier נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏreʾṣṣár), from Akkadian 𒀭𒀝𒃻𒁺𒋀 (Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, “Nabu protect my heir”).

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