Catai
Appearance
Italian
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin Kitai etc., from its Khitan original Khita(n), probably via Uyghur.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Catai m
- (historical) Cathay (the historical name of northern China)
- c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo et al., Milione [Million][1], translation of Le divisement dou monde by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa (in Old French); republished as “Della città di Ciaglu [On the city of Chaglu]” (chapter 128), in Antonio Lanza, editor, Il Milione di Marco Polo, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:
- Ciaglu è una molto grande città de la provincia del Catai, ed è al Grande Kane; e’ sono idoli. La moneta ànno di carte, e fan ardere lor corpi morti.
- [Ciaglu è una molto grande città de la provincia del Catai, ed è al Grande Kane; e' sono idoli. La moneta hanno di carte, e fan ardere lor corpi morti.]
- [original: Cianglu est encore une mout grant cité ver midi; est au Grant Kan et de la provence dou Catai. Lor monoie est de carte. Il sunt ydres et font ardoir les cors mors. (Franco-Venetian)]
- Changlu is a very large city in the province of Cathay: under the Great Khan: they [the people] are idolaters; they use paper money, and burn their dead.
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 19”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 1; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- questa, se non sapete, Angelica era,
del gran Can del Catai la figlia altiera- This, if you don't know, was Angelica, the haughty daughter of the Great Khan of Cathay.
- 1872–1880, Giovanni Pascoli, Astolfo[2], lines 29–32; republished in Maria Pascoli, compiler, Poesie varie di Giovanni Pascoli[3], Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1913, page 62:
- Pispigliavan le rose: Oh! la regina
del Catai si fa sposa.
Angelica, gemeano i fiordispina,
là, nel Catai, riposa- The roses whispered: "Oh, the queen of Cathay becomes a bride." "Angelica", moaned the hawthorne, "rests there, in Cathay."
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sinor, D. (1998) "The Kitan and the Kara Kitay" in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, Pt. I, UNESCO, p. 241.
Anagrams
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin Cathaya. See English Cathay for more.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Catai m
- (historical) Cathay (historical name of northern China)
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