# cassis
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French cassis.

### Pronunciation

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### 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.

#### Derived terms

* cream de cassis (“creme de cassis”)

#### Translations
### See also

* kir

### Anagrams

* cissas

## Etruscan
### Romanization

cassis
* Romanization of 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌔𐌉𐌔

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.sis/
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### Noun

cassis m (plural cassis)
* blackcurrant (fruit)
* the shrub of this fruit
* liqueur made with this fruit; crème de cassis
* (slang) head

#### Derived terms

* crème de cassis

### Further reading

* “cassis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”), and cognate with Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), whence English hat. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌔𐌉𐌔 (cassis).

#### Alternative forms

* cassida

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkas.sis/, [ˈkäs̠ːɪs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkas.sis/, [ˈkäsːis]

#### Noun

cassis f (genitive cassidis); third declension
* a plumed metal helmet

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* cassidārius
* cassidīle (Mediaeval Latin), -dīlis (New Latin)
* cassidolābrum (New Latin)
* cassīta

##### Descendants

* → Hebrew: קסדה (kasdá)
* Italian: casside, cassida

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cassis, -idis 'metal helmet'”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97

#### Further reading

* “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”).
Pokorny derives from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together”).
Martirosyan connects cassis and catēna with Old Armenian ցանց (cʻancʻ, “casting-net”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate.

#### Noun

cassis m (genitive cassis); third declension
* hunting net, snare, toil
* spider web
* (in the plural) snares, plots

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cassis 'hunting-net'”, in 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, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, page 294

#### Further reading

* “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.