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Etymology · Medieval Latin

Sīna

4 English words descend from Medieval Latin Sīna, most common first.

chinaA Chinese person.
SineseThe Chinese people or a Chinese person, (particularly) with reference to the historical southern Chinese known to the Greeks and Romans as the Sinae.
SinidA historical racial classification and term used in human physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace commonly found throughout East Asia and is associated with Chinese, Korean, and Japanese people.
sino-Sinus.