Catadupe

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile. obsolete
  2. An inhabitant of this city.
    — Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.

词源

The place name is from Latin Catadūpa, from Ancient Greek Κατάδουποι (Katádoupoi), "commonly derived from καταδουπέω (katadoupéō), as if downroars" (see κατα- (kata-, “down”), δουπέω (doupéō, “to thud”)).
(The people are from Latin Catadūpi.)
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