cassis
English
Etymology
Noun
cassis (usually uncountable, plural cassises)
- The blackcurrant plant, Ribes nigrum; the flavor of its berries
- 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.
- (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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French
Etymology
Probably from Latin cassia, from Hebrew קציעה (qetzi'ah), meaning incense cassia or the cassia tree.
Pronunciation
Noun
cassis m (plural cassis)
- blackcurrant (fruit)
- the shrub of this fruit
- liqueur made with this fruit; crème de cassis
- (slang) head
Further reading
- “cassis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology 1
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.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sis/, [ˈkäs̠ːɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sis/, [ˈkäsːis]
Noun
cassis f (genitive cassidis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cassis | cassidēs |
Genitive | cassidis | cassidum |
Dative | cassidī | cassidibus |
Accusative | cassidem | cassidēs |
Ablative | casside | cassidibus |
Vocative | cassis | cassidēs |
Derived terms
- cassidārius
- cassidīle (Mediaeval Latin), -dīlis (New Latin)
- cassidolābrum (New Latin)
- cassīta
References
- “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
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
cassis m (genitive cassis); third declension
Declension
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 |
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 534
- ^ 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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