Noun: cassia
| Singular | cassia |
| Plural | cassias; cassiæ |
Sample Sentences
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The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […] [1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6:]
Nouns inflected like cassia
prosopopœia,
gonorrhœa,
septicæmia,
blennorrhœa,
monomania,
chimæra,
pharmacopœia,
amœba,
tænia,
amnesia,
encyclopædia,
anæmia,
cæsura,
melæna,
cassia,
cyclopædia,
anæsthesia,
ischæmia,
subpœna,
homœomeria, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin cassia (“cinnamon”), from Ancient Greek κασσία, κασία, κάσια (kassía, kasía, kásia), from Hebrew קְצִיעָה (qəṣīʿā), from Aramaic קְצִיעֲתָא (qəṣīʿătā), from קְצַע (qṣaʿ, “to cut off”). Compare Kezia. See: Latin Nouns '
cassia'.