Sino-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Chinese:
中国的：
Sinology.
汉学
语源
- From Late Latin Sīnae [the Chinese]
源自 后期拉丁语 Sīnae [中国人] - from Greek Sinai
源自 希腊语 Sinai - from Arabic Sīn [China]
源自 阿拉伯语 Sīn [中国] - probably from Chinese Qin [the first dynasty (221-206] b.c. ) under which China was united
可能源自 汉语 秦 [统一中国的第一个封建王朝(] 公元前 221-206年）
Sino-
combining form
Chinese
⇒
Sino-Tibetan
⇒
Sinology
Origin
from French, from Late Latin Sīnae the Chinese, from Late Greek Sinai, from Arabic Sīn China, probably from Chinese Ch'inSino-a word element meaning 'Chinese', as in Sino-Tibetan, Sinology.
[New Latin, combining form representing Latin Sīnae the Chinese (from Greek Sinai)]Si·no-
\\\\ˌsī-(ˌ)nō, ˈsī-, -nə\\\\ combining form
sinology
2. Chinese and
Sino-Tibetan
\\\\ˌsī-(ˌ)nō, ˈsī-, -nə\\\\ combining form
ETYMOLOGY French, from Late Latin Sinae, plural, Chinese, from Greek Sinai, probably of Indo-Aryan origin; akin to Sanskrit Cīnā, plural, Chinese
1. Chinesesinology
2. Chinese and
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-
combining form
- Chinese; Chinese and ...表示“中国人的”; “汉语的”; “中国人与…的”：
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SinoAmerican.
- ■ relating to China表示“中国的”。
1898 E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics viii. 318*Sinograms, ideograms, and all hieroglyphics and picture-writing.
1857 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 12/2One of the greatest living French *Sinologers.
1877 Trübner's Amer. & OrientalLit. Record XI. 2/1It is significant of the preponderance assigned in *sinological studies to the English language, that Mr. von Möllendorff has thought it desirable to publish his work in English.
1970 Guardian 26 Nov. 15/6 This very readable and also scholarly collection..has all kinds of Sinological goodies too.
1816 P. du Ponceau Let. 31 July inTrans. Hist. &Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1816 I. 400As I am no *Sinologist, I will not undertake to say that the description which I have attempted to give of this language..is very accurate.
1838 ― ChineseSyst. WritingIntrod. 26Those sinologists who consider ideas to be inseparably inherent in the Chinese characters.
1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 643/2The Sinologist who read the scratches..as Chinese!
1853 North-China Herald 21 May 167/2 Prince of *Sinologues.
1856 Meadows Chinese 375The metaphysical reader, even if no sinologue, will at once decide in favour of my version.
1880 Sat. Rev. No. 1306. 581A gifted young sinologue who bids fair to introduce a new era in the study of Chinese.
1894 The Liberal 24 Nov. 50/1 The *Sinophil author of Primitive Civilization.
1900 E. R. Scidmore China i. 7One agrees and disagrees, too, with the sinologues, who are usually *sinophiles, that the Chinese are the one great race and flower of all Asia.
1977 R. Ludlum ChancellorMS. xxxiii. 350He's a Sinophile..He has one of the most extensive Chinese art collections in the world.
1974 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C. ) 17 July 17/7Ireland attributed the herbal pill fad to the public's ‘*sinophilia’ or ardent interest in Chinese culture including medicine.
1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar iii. 31Water-End became divided into two camps—Sinophile and *Sinophobe.
1966 New Statesman 22 Apr. 601/2 Siam..exhibits considerable *Sinophobia.
1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 177/1 The Korean war and the *Sinophobic diplomacy of John Foster Dulles.
1972 Computers & Humanities VI. 259 The term ‘dialect’ in this article refers loosely to all the sources of information in DOC: Middle Chinese,..18 modern Chinese dialects, and 3 *Sino-Xenic sources.
1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War v. 55The Sino-Albanian axis.
1931 H. B. Morse Far Eastern International Relations 750 (caption)Significance of the Sino-American treaty of 1928.
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk iii. 28Sino-American exchanges..had yielded a private understanding.
1904 Amer. Naturalist Sept. 676The restriction of the Sino-Australian continent to a certain part of the Cretaceous times consequently would meet the postulates of geography and zoögeography.
1977 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 15 Apr. 2/1 An insight into how Sino-British relations, already good, are likely to develop.
1959 Listener 25 June 1093/2 The Sino-Indian agreement of April 1954.
1903 Burlington Mag. Oct. 13/1We must place to the front the fact that Sino-Japanese design is almost exclusively an art of contours.
1978 Jrnl. R.Soc. Arts CXXVI. 652/1The terms of the Sino-Japanese Trade Agreement are, I would judge, likely to prove more beneficial to both parties than the EEC/China Agreement.
1975 ‘G. Black’ Big Wind for Summer ii. 22The girl..was..Sino-Malay.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 206/2In Central Asia..the Sino-Soviet frontier is straddled by a homogeneous Muslim population, while the Sino-Mongolian frontier is similarly straddled by a Mongolian population.
1926 Glasgow Herald 23 Jan. 9 The rift in the Sino-Russian lute.
1929 A. J. Toynbee SurveyInternat. Affairs 1928 434The zone..had reverted to Chinese administration in virtue of the Sino-Soviet Russian agreement of the 31st May 1924.
1959 Listener 2 Apr. 598/3 The Sino-Soviet zone of nations.
1971 H. Trevelyan Worlds Apart x. 125Sino-Soviet companies were formed to exploit minerals and oil, to develop Sinkiang in which the Soviet Union had a close interest, and to manage civil aviation.
1973 Times 14 Nov. 18/3 The Nagas are a group of 20 tribes of Sino-Tibetan origin.
1923 B. Karlgren AnalyticDict. Chinese & Sino-Japanese 7After the Sino-Japanese readings I often add in parenthesis the Kana spelling.
1954 M. Pei Dict. Linguistics 198Sino-Japanese, a term applied to Chinese loan-words in the Japanese language, the spoken form of which is different from the form or forms occurring in any of the spoken Chinese vernaculars.
1975 Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 122If Japanese is indeed the source of the term, a more plausible model would be nemaki, the colloquial equivalent of shin-i, which is the learned or Sino-Japanese term.
1953 Sino-Korean . [ see hangul2]
1975 Language LI. 257 Each representing a lexical item with information regarding..its pronunciation in the 21 major dialects of China and in the Sino-xenic languages, i.e. Sino-Japanese and Sino-Korean.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 402The Sino-Siamese sub-family of languages.
1954 M. Pei Dict. Linguistics 198Many linguists classify Chinese and Tai into one Tai-Chinese or Sino-Siamese sub-family.
1933 L. Bloomfield Language iv. 69The great Indo-Chinese (or Sino-Tibetan) family consists of three branches.
1948 R. A. D. Forrest ChineseLang. i. 21Chinese is reckoned as an independent member of the Sino-Tibetan, Indo-Chinese, or Sinitic family of languages.
1977 C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index of World'sLangs. 307It is the older, more liberal, classifications of Sino-Tibetan that have now come under critical scrutiny.
Sino-
before vowels Sin-, word-forming element meaning "Chinese," 1879, from Late Latin Sinæ (plural) "the Chinese," from Ptolemaic Greek Sinai, from Arabic Sin "China," probably from Chinese Ch'in, name of the fourth dynasty of China (see China).
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ORIGIN: from Greek Sinai , Latin Sinae the Chinese: see -o-
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ORIGIN: from sinus -o-
Sino-sino-
Prefix
- A combining form relating to China or the Chinese, in those terms' various senses.
- In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet rivalry also spread to Africa and the Middle East.
- He's a Sino-Kadazan: half Chinese, half Kadazan.
Etymology
From Late Latin Sinae (“the southern Chinese”), from Ptolemy's Ancient Greek Σῖναι (Sînai, “the southern Chinese”), of uncertain etymology but probably from Sanskrit चीन (Cina, “southern China”), possibly via Arabic اَلصِّين (aṣ-ṣīn, “southern China; the southern Chinese”) and usually held to derive from Old Chinese 秦 (*Dzin, “Qin”). See "Names of China" at Wikipedia.
Derived terms
English words prefixed with Sino-