Σῖναι

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Ancient Greek

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The land of the Sinae ("ϹῗΝΑΙ") at the eastern end of the landlocked Indian Ocean in a c. 1420 edition of Ptolemy's Geography.

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Etymology

Uncertain, but probably from Sanskrit चीन (Cīna, China), possibly via Arabic صِين (Ṣīn, China; the Chinese) and usually held to derive from Old Chinese (*zin, Qin).

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Σῖναι (Sînaim pl (genitive Σῑνῶν); first declension

  1. (culture) a people of East Asia usually identified as the southern Chinese: the Cantonese, Vietnamese, and other Yue peoples reached via the maritime Silk Road to Panyu (Guangzhou), not known at the time to be related to the Seres reached by the overland route to Chang'an (Xi'an)
    • 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, p. 247:
      The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.
      The name Thînai, Strabo, Sînai, Ptol., Tzínitza, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.
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  2. their homeland in southern China: Guangdong and northern Vietnam
  3. their chief city

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Further reading

  • Thinae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly