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Asiatic (adj.)
1630s, from Latin
Asiaticus
(surname of Latin Corn. Scipio), from Greek
Asiatikos
, from
Asia
(see
Asia
; also compare
Asian
). As a noun, by 1763. In ancient Rome,
Asiatici oratores
was florid and overly ornate prose.
