Sinensis

See also: sinensis

Latin

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Latin Sīnae

Latin -ēnsis

Latin Sī̆nēnsis

From Sīnae (“China, the Chinese people”) + -ēnsis.

Sī̆nēnsis (neuter Sī̆nēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective

Chinese
- 1579, Garcia de Orta (Portuguese), Charles de l'Écluse (Latin translation), Aromatum, et Simplicium Aliquot Medicamentorum apud Indos Nascentium Historia (3rd ed.), p. 58-59
  CETERVM quòd Canellæ diuerſa Cinnamomi & Caßiæ nomina indita fuerint, occaſionem præbuiſſe puto mercatores Chinenſes (nam Annales vrbis Ormuz prodũt olim quadringentas naues è China vno eodémque tempore eò appuliſſe) qui cum è ſua regione aurum, ſericum, vaſa murrhina (porcellanas vocant) moſchum, cuprum, margaritas, aliasq[ue] huiuſmodi merces eueherent
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	Sī̆nēnsis	Sī̆nēnse	Sī̆nēnsēs	Sī̆nēnsia
genitive	Sī̆nēnsis		Sī̆nēnsium
dative	Sī̆nēnsī		Sī̆nēnsibus
accusative	Sī̆nēnsem	Sī̆nēnse	Sī̆nēnsīs Sī̆nēnsēs	Sī̆nēnsia
ablative	Sī̆nēnsī		Sī̆nēnsibus
vocative	Sī̆nēnsis	Sī̆nēnse	Sī̆nēnsēs	Sī̆nēnsia

Sī̆nēnsis m or f (genitive Sī̆nēnsis); third declension

(usually in the plural) a Chinese person
- 1741, Jacob Friedrich Reimmann, Historia Literaria Babyloniorum et Sinensium, page 7:
  Nihil eſſe in Philoſophia Græcanica & Barbarica, qvod cum philoſophia Sinenſium antiqva componi poſſit, ſive vetuſtatem ſpectemus ſive dignitatem.
  That nothing in Greek or foreign philosophy can be compared to the ancient philosophy of the Chinese, be it age or dignity we consider.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.