catadupe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
Obsolete
name
An inhabitant of this city.
Example Sentences
- "Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them."
- "The inhabitants of Atures and Maypures, whatever the missionaries may have asserted in their works, are not more struck with deafness by the noise of the great cataracts, than the Catadupes of the Nile."
- "Yet was not this all; for hither to the north boiled the majestic cataract in unimaginable grandiloquence, and thither to the south sparkled the gentle catadupe in serene and incandescent tranquillity, whilst far and near the halcyon brooklet flowed between!"
- "It happens oftentimes that in the church of God, where the waters of Siloam should run with silence, there is nothing heard but the tempestuous roaring of some gulf or catadupe."
- "It sounds just like storing up more catadupes of undigested data."
Etymology
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.)
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Catadūpa, Κατάδουποι