Catai

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Italian[edit]

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Antica mappa del Catai. — Ancient map of Cathay.

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Kitai etc., from its Khitan original Khita(n), probably via Uyghur.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kaˈtaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: Ca‧tài

Proper noun[edit]

Catai m

  1. (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]

  1. ^ Sinor, D. (1998) "The Kitan and the Kara Kitay" in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV, Pt. I, UNESCO, p. 241.

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Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Cathaya. See English Cathay for more.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Catai m

  1. (historical) Cathay (historical name of northern China)
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