κασία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κασίη (kasíē) – Ionic
- κασσία (kassía)
Etymology
From a Semitic source equalling Hebrew קְצִיעָה (qəṣīʿā), Aramaic קְצִיעֲתָא (qəṣīʿătā), from קְצַע (qṣaʿ, “to cut off”), referencing the manner the tree produces is reaped.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈsi.a/
Noun
κᾰσίᾱ • (kasíā) f (genitive κᾰσίᾱς); first declension
- cassia (Cinnamomum iners)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κᾰσίᾱ; τῆς κᾰσίᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κᾰσίᾱ hē kasíā | τὼ κᾰσίᾱ tṑ kasíā | αἱ κᾰσίαι hai kasíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κᾰσίᾱς tês kasíās | τοῖν κᾰσίαιν toîn kasíain | τῶν κᾰσιῶν tôn kasiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κᾰσίᾳ têi kasíāi | τοῖν κᾰσίαιν toîn kasíain | ταῖς κᾰσίαις taîs kasíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κᾰσίᾱν tḕn kasíān | τὼ κᾰσίᾱ tṑ kasíā | τᾱ̀ς κᾰσίᾱς tā̀s kasíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰσίᾱ kasíā | κᾰσίᾱ kasíā | κᾰσίαι kasíai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κασσίζω (kassízō)
Descendants
- → Latin: cassia
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