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[ad_1] adjective
noun Usually Offensive.
- an Asian person.
noun, adjective
- a word formerly used for Asian
1630s, from Latin Asiaticus (surname of Latin Corn. Scipio), from Greek Asiatikos, from Asia (see Asia; also cf. Asian). As a noun, by 1763. In ancient Rome, Asiatici oratores was florid and overly ornate prose.