Sinensis

See also: sinensis

Latin

See Sinae.

Sinēnsis (neuter Sinēnse); third declension

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

Third declension.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	Sinēnsis	Sinēnse	Sinēnsēs	Sinēnsia
Genitive	Sinēnsis	Sinēnsis	Sinēnsium	Sinēnsium
Dative	Sinēnsī	Sinēnsī	Sinēnsibus	Sinēnsibus
Accusative	Sinēnsem	Sinēnse	Sinēnsēs, Sinēnsīs	Sinēnsia
Ablative	Sinēnsī	Sinēnsī	Sinēnsibus	Sinēnsibus
Vocative	Sinēnsis	Sinēnse	Sinēnsēs	Sinēnsia

Sinēnsis m (genitive Sinēnsis); third declension

(usually 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.

Third declension i-stem.

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