Lo-t'ien

English

Map including LO-T'IEN (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 羅田／罗田 (Luótián), Wade–Giles romanization: Lo²-t'ien².

Proper noun

Lo-t'ien

1. Alternative form of Luotian
   • 1901, J. J. M. de Groot, The Religious System of China‎^[1], volume IV, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2023, page 92:

     Yuh ying kia pi 育嬰家祕, "Domestic Mysteries regarding the Rearing of Children", a work by Wan Ts'üen 萬全, alias Mih-chai 密齋, a native of Lo-t'ien 羅田 in the extreme east of Hupeh, who lived under the Ming dynasty.

   • 1972, Colin P. Mackerras, The Rise of the Peking Opera 1770-1870‎^[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 184:

     Yü San-sheng came from Lo-t’ien in Hupeh, and was the son of a merchant.

   • 1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940‎^[3], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:

     Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).

Translations

Luotian — see Luotian

Anagrams

• entoil, lionet, lone it