cassia Latin · revision 33277

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=hbo קְצִיעָה}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkas.si.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkas.si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cassia''' ''f'' (genitive cassiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The classical spelling is ''casia'', which the metre confirms;^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''cassia'' is very common in the manuscripts and in late writers.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κασία|tr=kasía]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) which Wiktionary derives from [[hbo|קְצִיעָה|tr=qəṣīʿā]], from Aramaic.^(Wiktionary) Köbler likewise calls the Greek word a loan from the East, comparing Hebrew and Assyrian.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) in whom the scent of wine is praised: “you are saffron, you are cassia”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a tree with an aromatic bark like cinnamon, probably wild cinnamon,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and its bark, used in perfumes and medicine.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder describes it, and has a nest built of twigs of cassia and frankincense;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus uses it in remedies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Virgil it is also an aromatic shrub, perhaps mezereon or marjoram.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as cassia, wild cinnamon.^(Stelten 1995) Wiktionary gives Chinese cinnamon and the golden shower tree.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a perfume.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of an aromatic shrub.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, in remedies.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of the tree.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A tree with aromatic bark, wild [[m|en|cinnamon]]; its bark, [[m|en|cassia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An aromatic shrub, perhaps [[m|en|mezereon]] or [[m|en|marjoram]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cinnamum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In the Vulgate, ''Cassia'' is the name of Job's second daughter, on which Gregory the Great comments.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}