satin

From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون‎ (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), [1][2][3] from phono-semantic matching of Chinese 刺桐 (MC t͡sʰiᴇ^H duŋ, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC t͡sʰiᴇ^H duŋ d͡ʑiᴇŋ, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsætɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ætɪn

satin (countable and uncountable, plural satins)

1. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
   • 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.

• sateen

satin (not comparable)

1. Semigloss.

   satin paint

satin (third-person singular simple present satins, present participle satining, simple past and past participle satined)

1. (transitive) To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.

• satin at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Astin, Insta, Saint, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, saint, stain, stian, tians, tisan

From English satin, from Old French satin, from Italian setino, probably via unattested Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin sētā.

• Hyphenation: sa‧tin

satin

1. satin

From Arabic زَيْتُون‎ (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”).[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /sa.tɛ̃/

satin m (plural satins)

1. satin

• “satin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

satin m (invariable)

1. satin

   Synonyms: raso, setino, zetani, (obsolete) zettani

• satinato

• Nasti, Santi, santi, stani

Contraction of satisne.

satin (not comparable)

1. introducing questions

   Satin hoc plane? ― Is this beyond all doubt?

   Satin omnia ex sententia? ― Is everything going according to plan?

   Satin salva sunt omnia? ― Is everything sound?

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?
    

From French satin.

satin n (uncountable)

1. satin

• satäng

satin c or n

1. satin

• satin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• satin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• satin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish satín.

• Hyphenation: sa‧tin
• IPA^(key): /saˈtin/, [sɐˈtin]

satín

1. satin

satín

1. made of satin

• satinado