chaldean/kælˈdi.ən/EtymologyFrom Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.adjOf or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.“Honour me! Chaldean priests / Bow to me in adoration”nameThe West Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.Synonym of Biblical Aramaic (now considered a misnomer).Synonym of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.nounA native or inhabitant of Chaldea.“The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.”A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.A diviner or astrologer.“Older Babylonian astrology, which flourished in Kassite and Assyrian times (1400-700 B.C.) had a quite different character: it aimed at short-range predictions of general public events, such as wars and harvests, from striking phenomena such as eclipses, clouds, annual rising and setting of planets, whereas the Hellenistic "Chaldaeans" predicted individual fates from positions of planets and zodia”