Isca Augusta
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Latin
Etymology
From Isca (“city on the Usk”), with the imperial honorific Augusta used to distinguish it from the similarly named Isca Dumnōniōrum (“Exeter”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈis.ka au̯ˈɡus.ta/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈis.ka au̯ˈɡus.ta/,
Proper noun
Isca Augusta f sg (genitive Iscae Augustae); first declension
- (historical) Caerleon (a town in Britannia)
Declension
First-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Isca Augusta |
| genitive | Iscae Augustae |
| dative | Iscae Augustae |
| accusative | Iscam Augustam |
| ablative | Iscā Augustā |
| vocative | Isca Augusta |
| locative | Iscae Augustae |
Synonyms
- Isca, Isca Silurum (ancient)
References
- “Isca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly