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- Latin · derived fromsinopis“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”
- French · derived from[Term?]
- English todaysinopite
From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.