Latin

Alternative forms

• Chinēnsis, chinēnsis
• sinēnsis

Adjective

Sinēnsis m, f ‎(neuter Sinēnse); third declension

1. 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

Inflection

Third declension.

Noun

Sinēnsis m ‎(genitive Sinēnsis); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) A Chinese person.
   • 1741, Jacob Friedrich Reimmann, Historia Literaria Babyloniorum et Sinensium, p. 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.

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Latin

Adjective

sinēnsis m, f ‎(neuter sinēnse); third declension

1. Alternative spelling of Sinēnsis

Inflection

Third declension.

Noun

sinēnsis m ‎(genitive sinēnsis); third declension

1. Alternative spelling of Sinēnsis

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.