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cassinian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cassini-an
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

name

A sub-age from 473 to 471.8 million years ago, a subdivision of the Ordovician.

Etymology

From Cassini + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Cassinian (comparative) most Cassinian (superlative) the Cassinian (canonical)

Questions

What does cassinian mean?
Of or relating to the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
Where does cassinian come from?
From Cassini + -an.

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