satin

See also: Satin, sätin, and sat in

English

Etymology

From French satin, from Italian setino, probably via unattested Late Latin *sētīnus (“silken (cloth)”), from Latin sētā. A common folk etymology derives it instead from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), 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, but that derivation is unsupported.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsætɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ætɪn

Noun

satin (countable and uncountable, plural satins)

1. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
   • 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.

Derived terms

• Denmark satin
• farmers' satin
• satinash
• satinet
• satinette
• satinflower
• satin jean
• satin paper
• satinpod
• satin spar
• satin stitch
• satin weave
• satinwood
• satiny

 

Related terms

• sateen

Translations

cloth with a glossy surface and a dull back

• Arabic: أَطْلَس m (ʔaṭlas)

  Egyptian Arabic: اطلس m (aṭlas)

• Azerbaijani: atlaz (az)
• Belarusian: атла́с m (atlás), саці́н m (sacín)
• Burmese: ဖဲ (my) (hpai:)
• Catalan: setí m, ras (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緞子／缎子 (zh) (duànzi), 缎子 (zh) (duànzi), 色丁 (sèdīng)

• Czech: atlas (cs) m
• Esperanto: sateno
• Finnish: satiini (fi)
• French: satin (fr) m
• German: Satin (de) m, Satinstoff m, Satintuch n, Atlasstoff m, Atlastuch n, Atlasgewebe n
• Greek: σατέν (el) n (satén)
• Hindi: अतलस m or f (atlas)
• Italian: satin (it) m raso (it) m
• Japanese: 本繻子 (ほんしゅす, honshusu), 繻子 (しゅす, shusu), サテン (ja) (saten), 朱子 (しゅす, shusu), サティン (satin)
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• Korean: 새틴 (saetin), 공단 (gongdan)
• Maori: hatini
• Persian: اطلس (fa) (atlas)
• Polish: atłas (pl) m
• Portuguese: cetim (pt) m
• Russian: атла́с (ru) m (atlás), сати́н (ru) m (satín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀те̄н m

  Roman: sàtēn (sh) m

• Spanish: raso (es) m, satén m
• Swedish: siden (sv)
• Tajik: атлас (atlas)
• Thai: ต่วน (th) (dtùuan)
• Turkish: atlas (tr)
• Ukrainian: атла́с (uk) m (atlás), сати́н m (satýn)
• Urdu: اطلس m or f (atlas)
• Uzbek: atlas (uz)

Adjective

satin (not comparable)

1. Semigloss.

   satin paint

Translations

smooth and shiny

• Arabic: صَقِيل (ṣaqīl)
• French: satiné (fr)
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• Greek: σατινέ (el) (satiné), σατινένιος (el) (satinénios)

Verb

satin (third-person singular simple present satins, present participle satining, simple past and past participle satined)

1. (transitive) To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.

Further reading

• “satin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Astin, Insta, Saint, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, saint, stain, stian, tians, tisan

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Etymology

From English satin, from Old French satin, from Italian setino, probably via unattested Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin sētā.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧tin

Noun

satin

1. satin

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Italian

Noun

satin m (uncountable)

1. satin

   Synonyms: raso, setino, zetani, (obsolete) zettani

Derived terms

• satinato

Anagrams

• santi, stani

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Latin

Etymology

Contraction of satisne.

Adverb

satin (not comparable)

1. introducing questions

   Satin' hoc plane? ― Is this beyond all doubt?

   Satin' omnia ex sententia? ― Is everything going according to plan?

   Satin' salva sunt omnia? ― Is everything sound?

References

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?