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cassis

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cassis.

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Noun

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cassis (usually uncountable, plural cassises)

  1. The blackcurrant plant, Ribes nigrum; the flavor of its berries.
  2. A liqueur made from these berries, especially crème de cassis.
    Cassis and soda is a popular drink.
    • 1972, Evan Hunter, Every Little Crook and Nanny, page 132:
      The bartender looked at her malevolently for a moment, shook his head, and walked away to mix the drink. "I never had one of those, those vermouth cassises," Freddie said.
  3. (chiefly US) A wine flavor note, suggesting the fruity and full-bodied characteristics of the fruit; mostly referred to as simply blackcurrant in the UK, where the fruit is common.

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Etruscan

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Romanization

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cassis

  1. Romanization of 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌔𐌉𐌔

French

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Etymology

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Probably from Latin cassia, from Hebrew קציעה (qetzi'ah), meaning incense cassia or the cassia tree.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ka.sis/
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Noun

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cassis m (plural cassis)

  1. blackcurrant (fruit)
  2. the shrub of this fruit
  3. liqueur made with this fruit; crème de cassis
  4. (slang) head

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From the Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with the Old English hætt (“head-covering, hat”). More at the English hat. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌔𐌉𐌔 (cassis).

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Noun

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cassis f (genitive cassidis); third declension

  1. a plumed metal helmet
Declension
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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cassis cassidēs
Genitive cassidis cassidum
Dative cassidī cassidibus
Accusative cassidem cassidēs
Ablative casside cassidibus
Vocative cassis cassidēs
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Descendants
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  • → Hebrew: קסדה (kasdá)
  • Italian: casside, cassida

References

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  • “cassis¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cassis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cassis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • 1 cassĭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “271/1”
  • “cassis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cassis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • “cassis¹” on page 281/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

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The origin is uncertain. Probably connected with catēna (“chain”).[1]

Pokorny derives from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together”).[2]

Martirosyan connects cassis and catēna with Old Armenian ցանց (cʻancʻ, “casting-net”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate.[3]

Noun

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cassis m (genitive cassis); third declension

  1. hunting net, snare, toil
  2. spider web
  3. (in the plural) snares, plots
Declension
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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cassis cassēs
Genitive cassis cassium
Dative cassī cassibus
Accusative cassem cassēs
cassīs
Ablative casse cassibus
Vocative cassis cassēs

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 534
  3. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2016) “Mediterranean substrate words in Armenian: two etymologies”, in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander & Birgit Anette Olsen, editors, Etymology and the European Lexicon. Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, Copenhagen, 17-22 September 2012‎[1], Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 294
  • “cassis²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cassis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cassĭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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