noun
synonym of raso: satin
“[…] e otra de aceytuni carmesi, e las bocas de las mangas con vnas trenzas de oro, anchas encima brosladas con aljofar […]”
Synonyms: raso
Probably via unattested Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin sētā. Very frequently folk-etymologized to derive from Arabic زيتون (“Zayton; olive”), a calque of Quanzhou's former Chinese nickname 刺桐城 (Cìtóngchéng, “Tung Tree City”), after the trees which had been extensively planted there in the 10th century by Liu Congxiao, but the derivation is unsupported.