Catadupe

See also: catadupe

English

Etymology

Anglicization of Cativadwip.

Proper noun

Catadupe

1. (obsolete) A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara.
2. An inhabitant of Catadupe.
   • 1780, The Miseries Of Inforced Marriage, page 189:

     Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.

   • 1819, The Leeds Correspondent:

     The inhabitants of Atures and Maypures, whatever the missionaries may have asserted in their works, are not more struck with deafness by the noise of the great cataracts, than the Catadupes of the Nile.

Usage notes

The city is now called Catwa. This obsolete name is of note primarily because of the 1780 quote given above about the Catadupes not hearing the falls.