The corpus record — Latin

casia

casia · f

A tree with an aromatic bark

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Georgicon 5 · 3.53/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
De Medicina 17 · 1.66/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

căsĭa — Lewis & Short

căsĭa (rarely cassia, e. g. ae, f., = kasi/a or kassi/a.

Pall. Oct. 14, 13; Veg. 6, 13, 3 and 4),

I A tree with an aromatic bark, similar to cinnamon, prob. the wild cinnamon: Laurus cassia, Linn.; Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 85, and 12, 19, 43, § 95 sq.; Verg. G. 2, 466; Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 6; Cels. 5, 23, 1 and 2; Scrib. Comp. 93; 125 al.—

II A fragrant, shrub-like plant, mexereon, also called cneoron or thymelaea, q. v., Plin. 21, 9, 29, § 53; 21, 12, 41, § 70; Verg. E. 2, 49; id. G. 2, 213; 4, 30; 4, 182; Ov. F. 4, 440; Mart. 10, 97, 2.

In the wild

casia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.21.p37
casiae Celsus, De Medicina 5.20.p7
casias Martial, Epigrammata 10.97.2
casiaque Martial, Epigrammata 6.55.1
casiaque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.21.p1
casiae Celsus, De Medicina 5.18.p33

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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