Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA diminutive of the female given name Cassandra of medieval origin, later also used for Cassidy, Cassiopeia, and Catherine with its variant forms. · A surname originating as a matronymic. · A male given name transferred from the surname. · A diminutive of the male given name Cassius.
* As an English surname, from a pet form of Cassandra. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Cais (“descendant of the curly-haired one”), from cas (“curly”).
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