Caesarea
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See also: Cæsarea
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Caesarēa, from Caesar + -ea. Both the Algerian and Turkish cities were named in honor of Augustus. Doublet of Kayseri and Cherchell.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Caesarea
- A port city in Israel.
- (historical) Various other former cities in the Roman Empire, including
Synonyms
- (Israeli city): Qesarya; Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palestina, Caesarea Palaestinae, Caesarea Stratonis, Caesarea Sebaste (historical)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
any of the places called Caesarea
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Latin
Etymology
From Caesar + -ēa, on the pattern of Alexandrēa and similar. In sense 2, by phono-semantic matching of English Jersey.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kae̯.saˈreː.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃe.saˈre.a/,
Proper noun
Caesarēa f sg (genitive Caesarēae); first declension
- Name of numerous cities and locations in the Roman Empire, among which are:
- Caesarea Maritima (an ancient city in modern Israel; modern Caesarea)
- Caesarea in Cappadocia (an ancient city in Cappadocia, in modern Turkey; modern Kayseri)
- Caesarea in Mauretania (the ancient capital of the polities of Numidia and Mauretania, in modern Algeria; modern Cherchell)
- (New Latin) Jersey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Caesarēa |
| genitive | Caesarēae |
| dative | Caesarēae |
| accusative | Caesarēam |
| ablative | Caesarēā |
| vocative | Caesarēa |
| locative | Caesarēae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: Cesarea
- → English: Caesarea
- → French: Césarée
- → Italian: Cesarea
- → Ancient Greek: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia) (calque)
- → Arabic: قَيْسارِيّة (qaysāriyya)
- → Turkish: Kayserya
- → Old Armenian: Կեսարիա (Kesaria)
- Armenian: Կեսարիա (Kesaria)
- Greek: Καισάρεια (Kaisáreia)
- → Hebrew: קֵיסָרְיָה (Keysaryá)
- → Turkish: Kayseri
- → Russian: Кесари́я (Kesaríja)
- → Arabic: قَيْسارِيّة (qaysāriyya)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Cesaira
- → Polish: Cezarea
- → Portuguese: Cesareia
- → Spanish: Cesarea
References
- “Caesarea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Caesarea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.