Ceylon
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese Ceilão, from Old French Seilan (Marco Polo), from Persian سیلان (saylān), ultimately from Pali sīhaḷa, from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala). Doublet of Sinhala.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɒn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /seɪˈlɑn/, /siˈlɑn/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɒn, (US) -ɑn
Proper noun edit
Ceylon
- (archaic, historical) Sri Lanka [prior to 1972].
- 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 55:
- Brush supplied shunters to industrial clients, but the first significant main line order came from the Ceylon Government Railway in 1950 for 25 diesel-electrics.
- (very rare) A male given name transferred from the place name.
- (computer languages) An object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability.
Usage notes edit
- The country name Ceylon is generally considered archaic, having been replaced by Sri Lanka, but it is still used in some contexts; see usage notes for Sri Lanka.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
old name for Sri Lanka — see also Sri Lanka
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Noun edit
Ceylon (countable and uncountable, plural Ceylons)
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Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From English Ceylon, from Portuguese Ceilão.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ceylon
- (historical) Ceylon (former name of the island and state of Sri Lanka)
Usage notes edit
- still used in the names of many plants and animals
Declension edit
Inflection of Ceylon (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Ceylon | — | ||
genitive | Ceylonin | — | ||
partitive | Ceylonia | — | ||
illative | Ceyloniin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Ceylon | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Ceylon | — | |
gen. | Ceylonin | |||
genitive | Ceylonin | — | ||
partitive | Ceylonia | — | ||
inessive | Ceylonissa | — | ||
elative | Ceylonista | — | ||
illative | Ceyloniin | — | ||
adessive | Ceylonilla | — | ||
ablative | Ceylonilta | — | ||
allative | Ceylonille | — | ||
essive | Ceylonina | — | ||
translative | Ceyloniksi | — | ||
abessive | Ceylonitta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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compounds