🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

卡珊德拉

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kǎ shān dé lā

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cassandra/kəˈsæn.drə/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他发出的警告没有人在意,就像一个现代的卡珊德拉。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who is prophesying doom or disaster, but whose warnings are disregarded.

    "Environmental scientists often feel like modern Cassandras when their climate warnings go unheeded."
  2. 2

    In technical architecture and databases, a reference to Apache Cassandra, a decentralized distributed NoSQL database management system.

    "The engineering team chose Cassandra to handle the massive influx of real-time transactional data."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek proper name Kassándra, composed of kassýo (to entangle, plot) and anḗr (man, warrior). In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Trojan princess cursed by Apollo to utter true prophecies that would never be believed by mortals, leading to the modern eponym for someone whose accurate warnings are disregarded.

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