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[Opinions] Cassia
What are your thoughts on Cassia?Do you say cass-ee-ah or cash-ah?Does it have another etymology apart from the Cassius ancient Roman one? Because that means "empty, vain" and I obviously hate it :/Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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Love it! Cassia snuck up on me - I had never heard it and after I did I couldn't forget it!
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I quite like Cassia - but only when pronounced KAS-ee-uh. I don't like KASH-uh at all.Cassia is my favorite of the "Cass" names.
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It's nice, but I also heard Cassia means cinnamon, cinnamon is my least favorite spice. I personally wouldn't use it. With the meaning hollow, vain, there are popular and common names that have negative meanings too such as Leah, Mary and the bajillion variants, Claudia, and more.
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I actually think of blackcurrants (aka cassis) when I see this name, so that could be a chosen etymology if you want, why not. I say Cass-ee-ah naturally. It's a nice name, a little simplistic, but cute. It would be fun to find out Cassie is a nickname for Cassia.
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I like it and associate it more with cinnamon than Cassius. I pronounce it CASS-ee-əh.
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I like it
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I think it's beautiful. I pronounce it CAS-ee-a. Cassia can also mean cinnamon from Latin, via Greek via Aramaic qəṣīʿătā meaning "to cut off" (presumably... Stems of cinnamon were cut off? I know very little about harvesting cinnamon).
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I like Cassia. I pronounce it as CASS ee uh.
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Prefer it to Cassidy or Cassandra. It sounds like a flower. Wouldn’t worry about the meaning. I’d pronounce it Ca-see-ah
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I say it as cass-EE-ah. I think that pronounciation is very pretty and cash-ah is a little less attractive. But yes, the “empty, vain” meaning is very unfortunate. As far as masculine versions go I like Cassian best. Specifically paired with Charles.Cassia is also tree. I think it’s a type of inferior cinnamon. It’s called the “golden shower tree”. So if that’s so bad to you maybe just think it means “cinnamon”.Cassia Elizabeth
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It's pretty and a nice alternative to Cassandra or Cassidy. It should be more popular.Neither. I pronounce it KA-sya, due to Spanish pronunciation rules, but in English I pronounce it KA-see-aI also think the "empty" meaning is... pretty empty, needless to say :P so I just think of the genus of cinnamon. In fact, cassia is the Latin word for cinnamon, so yeah, a much better meaning. :)
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I say cass-ee-ah, based on Cassius. As a name, I just think of the spice, and OK, it's better than Cinnamon for a human, but not at all to my taste, though the spice itself certainly is.I wouldn't worry too much about the meaning: it was common practice in the ancient world, and in Kipling's Jungle Book, to be impolite or even derogatory about children because if you said nice things about them, the gods would get jealous and do something dreadful to the child by way of revenge. So names like Blind and Vain and Crippled made perfect sense!
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