aceytuni

Spanish

Alternative forms
  • aceituní

Etymology

Probably via unattested Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin sētā.[1] Very frequently folk-etymologized to derive from Arabic زيتون‎ (“Zayton; olive”),[2] a calque of Quanzhou's former Chinese nickname 刺桐城 (“Tung Tree City”), after the trees which had been extensively planted there in the 10th century by Liu Congxiao,[3] but the derivation is unsupported.[1]

Noun

aceytuni

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of raso: satin.
    • 1641, Gerónimo de Blancas, Coronaciones de los serenissimos reyes de Aragon‎:
      […] e otra de aceytuni carmesi, e las bocas de las mangas con vnas trenzas de oro, anchas encima brosladas con aljofar […]
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References
  1. "satin, n. (and adj.)" in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909.
  2. E.g., Henry Yule's "Chinchew" entry for the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., 1878.
  3. Kauz, Ralph. Aspects of the Maritime Silk Road, p. 145.
  1. 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673:
    Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.
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