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Catadupe¹
Where it comes from
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.)
proper noun
- A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
- An inhabitant of this city. Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.
catadupe²
Where it comes from
From French catadupe, from Latin Catadūpa, name of the first cataract of the Nile, from Ancient Greek Κατάδουποι (Katádoupoi); see Catadupe for more.
noun catadupes
- Waterfall; cataract. 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!
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