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κασία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κασία

Structure: κασι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: A foreign word.

Sense

  1. cassia

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἰούδασ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, οὗτοι ἔμποροί σου ἐν πράσει σίτου καὶ μύρων καὶ κασίασ, καὶ πρῶτον μέλι καὶ ἔλαιον καὶ ρητίνην ἔδωκαν εἰσ τὸν σύμμεικτόν σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 27:17)
  • "προέκειτο δὲ αὐτοῦ κρατὴρ Λακωνικὸσ χρυσοῦσ μετρητῶν δεκαπέντε καὶ τρίπουσ χρυσοῦσ, ἐφ’ οὗ θυμιατήριον χρυσοῦν καὶ φιάλαι δύο χρυσαῖ , κασίασ μεσταὶ καὶ κρόκου, περιέκειτο δ’ αὐτῷ καὶ σκιὰσ ἐκ κισσοῦ καὶ ἀμπέλου καὶ τῆσ λοιπῆσ ὀπώρασ κεκοσμημένη, προσήρτηντο δὲ καὶ στέφανοι καὶ ταινίαι καὶ θύρσοι καὶ τύμπανα καὶ μίτραι πρόσωπά τε σατυρικὰ καὶ κωμικὰ καὶ τραγικά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:119)
  • "αὗται δ’ εἶχον σκηνὰσ βαρβαρικάσ, ὑφ’ ὧν ἐκάθηντο γυναῖκεσ Ἰνδαὶ καὶ ἕτεραι κεκοσμημέναι ὡσ αἰχμάλωτοι, κάμηλοι δ’ αἱ μὲν ἔφερον λιβανωτοῦ μνᾶσ τριακοσίασ, σμύρνησ τριακοσίασ, κρόκου καὶ κασίασ καὶ κινναμώμου καὶ ἴριδοσ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀρωμάτων διακοσίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3112)
  • σεμναὶ δ’ αὐλῶν ἀγαναὶ φωναί, μολπά, κλαγγὰ θράττει, πνεῖται κούραν κασίασ ἀπὸ γᾶσ ἁγίασ, ἁλίασ Συρίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 4:5)
  • "ἀπέσταλκά σοι τάλαντα ἑκατὸν λιβανωτοῦ καὶ κασίασ· (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. cassia

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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