English Explanatory Dictionary

Catadupe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
  2. An inhabitant of this city.
noun
  1. Waterfall; cataract.

Word forms

Catadupe catadupes

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.)

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