What's the difference between chaldean and chaldee?
Chaldean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
(n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.
(n.) Nestorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(2) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(3) But the Iraq-based leader of the Chaldean Catholic church, Louis Sako, said none of the worshippers had been hurt, and that he did not believe the church was the target.
(4) On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilisations.
(5) Isis has repeatedly attacked minorities in Iraq, evicting many of the country’s Chaldean Christians from their ancestral homelands in the Nineveh plains, and attempting to starve and enslave thousands of the ancient Yazidi minority.
(6) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(7) In 2008, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop was kidnapped and murdered.
(8) The Isis rampage through Iraq’s Nineveh plains forced out Chaldean Christians and other minorities from areas in which they had co-existed for nearly 2,000 years.
(9) The majority of Iraq’s Christians are part of the Chaldean church.
(10) Many of the region’s minorities, particularly Chaldean Christians, were driven from their ancestral homes out of fear of forced conversions.
(11) By chance, I was in Kurdistan making a programme shortly after and met with some Chaldean refugees who had fled in the wake of the archbishop's murder.
(12) The capital of the Kurdish north is already home to a new Chaldean Christian community, which fled Baghdad in the wake of an Isis-led massacre inside a cathedral in October 2010.
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) The Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Joseph Thomas, described the situation in northern Iraq as "catastrophic, a crisis beyond imagination".
(15) It will help foster understanding and peace.” The mixed Christian community in Turkey is very small, estimated at about 80,000 in a country of 75 million, and only the few Roman Catholics and Chaldeans regard the pope as their spiritual leader.
(16) Waves of attacks on Christians since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam have eroded its once sizeable Christian population, mainly from the Assyrian and Chaldean denominations.
(17) If it’s a five-year-old orphan or a child, or if it’s a 90-year-old woman who’s coming to this country, if this is an established leader of the Chaldean religion, someone that we know about that you can vet, common sense says, OK, you can vet them,” Rubio told the Guardian in an interview last week.
Chaldee
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
(n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea.