Sinaean

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English

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Etymology

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From Sinae +‎ -an, from Latin Sinae, from Ancient Greek Σῖναι (Sînai), q.v.

Adjective

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Sinaean (comparative more Sinaean, superlative most Sinaean)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of Chinese. [1639]
    • 1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139:
      ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.
    • 1958 November, Joseph J. Spengler, “Malthus Again”, in Challenge, volume 7, number 2, page 12:
      An undersettled Soviet Union welcomes the rise of a 600-million Sinaean power increasing some two per cent per year.
  2. (archaic) Synonym of East Asian or Chinese-like. [1763]
    • 1893, Guillaume Louis Figuier, translated by Robert Wilson, The Human Race, page 292:
      The nations belonging to the Sinæan branch... have not the features of the Yellow Race so well defined as those belonging to the Mongolian branch.
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Proper noun

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Sinaean (plural Sinaeans)

  1. (archaic, rare) Synonym of Chinese.
    • 1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139:
      ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.

Noun

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Sinaean (plural Sinaeans)

  1. (archaic, rare) Synonym of Chinese.
    • 1639, John Chilmead, translating Robert Hues as A Learned Treatise of Globes..., p. 139:
      ...so that I cannot but wonder that Matthaeus Riccius a Iesuite, in his Sinaean expedition should take so much paines to prove, that the Kingdome of Cathaia, and of the Sinaeans is all one.

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