aceytuni
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Probably via unattested (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sētā.[1] Very frequently folk-etymologized to derive from Arabic زيتون (“Zayton; olive”),[2] a calque of Quanzhou's former Chinese nickname 刺桐城 (Cìtóngchéng, “Tung Tree City”), after the trees which had been extensively planted there in the 10th century by Liu Congxiao,[3] but the derivation is unsupported.[1]
Noun
aceytuni
- (obsolete) Synonym of raso: satin.
- 1641, Gerónimo de Blancas, Coronaciones de los serenissimos reyes de Aragon[1]:
- […] e otra de aceytuni carmesi, e las bocas de las mangas con vnas trenzas de oro, anchas encima brosladas con aljofar […]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "satin, n. (and adj.)" in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909.
- ^ E.g., Henry Yule's "Chinchew" entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., 1878.
- ^ Kauz, Ralph. Aspects of the Maritime Silk Road, p. 145.
- 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673:
- Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.