κασσίτερος

• καττίτερος (kattíteros) — Attic

An Elamite origin has been suggested but, according to Beekes, the group "σσ/ττ" is typically Pre-Greek, so the word would have come from Greece or Western Anatolia, like μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead”), but even if so, the word might still go back to Mesopotamia, representing the name of the Kassites, who settled near Elam and major sources of tin. Compare also the etymology of Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā, “marcasite”). Related to Sanskrit कस्तीर (kastīra, “tin”).

κασσίτερος • (kassíteros) m (genitive κασσῐτέρου); second declension

1. tin

   Synonym: βούλλα (boúlla)

• Greek: κασσίτερος (kassíteros)
• → Aramaic: קְסְטִירָא (qəsṭīrā), קַסִּיטְרָא (qassīṭrā)
  • → Arabic: قَصْدِير (qaṣdīr)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kòsitar
• → Slovene: kosítər

• “κασσίτερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κασσίτερος 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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κασσίτερος (kassíteros).

κασσίτερος • (kassíteros) m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, metallurgy) tin

• Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements
• κονσέρβα f (konsérva, “tin for preserving food”)
• λευκοσίδηρος m (lefkosídiros, “tin-plate”)

• ακασσιτέρωτος (akassitérotos, “tinless”)

• κασσίτερος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el