Sinensis

See also: sinensis

Latin[edit]

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

Sīnēnsis (neuter Sīnēnse); 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.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	Sīnēnsis	Sīnēnse	Sīnēnsēs	Sīnēnsia
Genitive	Sīnēnsis		Sīnēnsium
Dative	Sīnēnsī		Sīnēnsibus
Accusative	Sīnēnsem	Sīnēnse	Sīnēnsēs Sīnēnsīs	Sīnēnsia
Ablative	Sīnēnsī		Sīnēnsibus
Vocative	Sīnēnsis	Sīnēnse	Sīnēnsēs	Sīnēnsia

Sinēnsis m or f (genitive Sinēnsis); 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.
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Third-declension two-termination adjective.