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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Semitic source equalling Hebrew קְצִיעָה (qəṣīʿā), Aramaic קְצִיעֲתָא (qəṣīʿătā), from קְצַע (qṣaʿ, “to cut off”), referencing the manner the tree produce is reaped.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.sí.aː/ → /kaˈsi.a/ → /kaˈsi.a/
Noun
κᾰσίᾱ • (kasíā) f (genitive κᾰσίᾱς); first declension
- cassia (Cinnamomum iners)
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN