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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.

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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!